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RUNNEMEDE, NJ (SNN-TV) – Baseball legend Jackie Robinson’s All-Star Game bat sold for $1M in an auction Saturday.
Goldin Auctions announced the sale of the 1949 bat which came directly from Rachel Robinson, Jackie’s widow.
While it is rare for a baseball bat to fetch more than $1M, the sale was not an all-time record.
That belongs to the bat Babe Ruth used to hit his first home run for the Yankees, which sold for $1.2M.
The single most expensive piece of Jackie Robinson memorabilia is a game-worn Brooklyn Dodgers jersey. His famous number 42 jersey sold for more than $4.2M last year.
