me this birthday present of a# baseball signed by Babe Ruth.

APPRAISER: 1961, you got# it for your 13th birthday.

GUEST: Right.

1961, and, uh, he# gave it to me when he le that my baseball team was going on a# road trip up to, uh, Kansas APPRAISER: Mm.

to me, and, uh, I took it along with me.

We# got there and saw the game on August 27... APPRAISER: Mm-hmm.

GUES runs that day that we saw in our game,# but Yogi Berra did hit one home run.

APPRAISER: Right.

our team, took the ball and, uh, disappeared# and came back a little bit later at the end## of the game.

He had, uh, Roger Maris# and Mickey Mantle had signed the ball.

APPRAISER: Wow.

GUEST: Right, the ticket stub.

APPRAISER: '31, right here.

And here's Mantle, and it# shows Mickey Mantle, 1961, on th en we flip it around and there is Roger Maris.# And did you know what was going on that summer?

GUEST: Oh, yes.

It was in all the# news.

Uh, Mickey Mantle and Roger## Maris in their home run duel# to break Babe Ruth's record.

APPRAISER: That's right, and that's what I# love about this baseball-- here you have,## and we'll flip it back here, Babe Ruth, who, of# course, broke his own home run setting at 60 home runs in a single season.# Broke his home run record of 1921, when he## hit 59 home runs, and you fast-forward to 1961,# and you have the M&M boys.

In all my years in, in## sports-- and I've been a sports fan all my life# and I've been looking at baseballs for many,## many years-- I've never seen a baseball signed# by Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle, let alone a ball signed by Ruth in the heyday of# his career, 1931, and Mantle and Maris during the## summer that they assaulted Ruth's home run record.# Maris ended up hitting 61 in 161 games.

Mantle,## of course, went down with an injury late# in the season and I believe only finished## with 52 or 54.

That's what gives it value.# You've got these t and these two eras of the home run being# set by Ruth and then the home run record## being broken by Maris in '61.

At auction,# I'd put it up at about $30,000 to $50,000.

GUEST: That much?

APPRAISER: $30,000 to $50,00 GUEST: I didn't an, anticipate that APPRAISER: And I would put an insura have two great eras here.

You have two# great stories here that have collided## right in this baseball.

Who knew what you# were going to get for your 13th birthday?

GUEST: I did, I didn't ever dreamed of this.