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- CIRCA - 1951
- MANUFACTURER - H&B
Louisville Slugger
- SIZE -
48" tall
- PRICE RANGE -
$3,500 - $6,000
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This
is a scarce H&B Louisville Slugger cardboard bat
rack display. One of only a handful of known
examples this display piece stands 48" tall with
bat receptacles at the bottom rim. Body of the display
features dozens of H&B player endorsees facsimile
signatures. Players include Ruth, Williams, Cobb,
DiMaggio, Speaker, and Wagner. At the top are two
matching die cut cardboard batter figures. Pictured
below left is an original H&B Louisville Slugger
store poster showing the bat rack, for displayed during
the Christmas season. The bat rack made of heavy extra
ply cardboard holds 12 baseball bats. The bat rack
display with original box, and 17"x37" poster which
sold at auction for $6,500 cost the store owner $3.95
including shipping to purchase back in 1951.
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