Alright, so it's not homemade; it's a Louisville Slugger. But it is quite old.
It's the kind of story that the folks at PBS and Antiques Roadshow would love: Shoved in the corner of a Yarmouth Port garage for years was an old wooden baseball bat. Nobody thought anything of it or treated it any differently than any other old baseball bat. In fact, (this is the part they would be none to pleased with) occasionally they took it out and used it. But the bat is not an ordinary bat. It is, in fact, a bat that was used by Bobby Doerr during the 1930s.
The bat's current owner is Art Goodall. Before that it belonged to Goodall's father-in-law and before that, presumably, Bobby Doerr. Goodall's wife, Jane, died from a brain cancer two years ago. As a result, Goodall has decided to sell the bat-in his wife's honor-to raise money for cancer research.
Goodall hasn't yet made a determination of how he's going to sell the bat but in the meantime, if you're the generous sort, donations can be made to:
Arthur & Jane Goodall Family Gift Fund
P.O. Box 770001
Cincinnati, OH 45277-0053.
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