A uncommon memento postcard picturing Hank Aaron as a rookie with the Indianapolis Clowns of the Negro Leagues bought for almost $200,000 at a baseball memorabilia public sale that additionally included Ted Williams’ 1946 AL MVP award, which went for $528,750.
The Aaron postcard from the scrapbook of scout Ed Scott, who found Aaron, went for $199,750 following a bidding conflict that soared previous the pre-sale estimate of $5,000-$10,000, Hunt Auctions mentioned.
The public sale included 280 objects from Williams’ private assortment that had been held by his daughter, Claudia, who died final yr. Among the many different objects have been a silver bat awarded for his 1958 batting title, which bought for greater than $270,000, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom introduced to him by fellow naval aviator George H.W. Bush, which went for $141,000.
The sale additionally included objects from the gathering of Rutherford Hayes Jones, the enterprise supervisor of the Washington Giants, one of many earliest Black baseball groups. The trove was found in 2001 in a suitcase, the place it had been unseen for 40 years.
A primary batch of things from Claudia Williams’ assortment went up for public sale in 2012 at Fenway Park and garnered greater than $5 million.
