A Rare and Valuable Lou Gehrig Baseball Mitt Is A Holy Grail — forbes.com

In another post, I wrote about the auction of a Lou Gehrig mitt that he signed and may well have used at the height of his career. The consignor is a 92-year-old man who received it as a gift when he was 12-years-old. That mitt could fetch $200 to $300K. If that’s too rich for your blood, there’s a fun and less expensive option. As a contributor to a hobby publication, Tuff Stuff, 20 years ago, I wrote about a machinist from Albany, Oregon: “Collector Andy Smith knows that the odds of finding a T-206 Honus Wagner at a flea market fall somewhere between winning the lottery and watching the Red Sox win the World Series in his lifetime The odds are much better that he’ll find a collectible baseball mitt. The rawhide version of the fabled Wagner T-206 is the zipper-back Ken-Wel 1930s era mitt.”

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