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Former San Francisco Giants player Barry Bonds waves as he arrives at a ceremony honoring Hunter Pence on the team's Wall of Fame before a baseball game between the Giants and the Los Angeles Dodgers in San Francisco, Saturday, Sept. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Barry Bonds is enjoying watching the new generation of baseball sluggers put up record-setting stats

By Janie McCauley - Associated Press

The 1932 Babe Ruth game worn New York Yankees World Series "Called Shot" jersey is displayed in a sealed glass box at Heritage Auction in Irving, Texas, Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Babe Ruth’s ‘called shot’ jersey sells at auction for over $24 million

By Jamie Stengle - Associated Press

FILE - New York Yankee outfielder Babe Ruth is shown in a posed pitching stance at Yankee Stadium in New York, in this 1933 file photo. Two-way phenom Shohei Ohtani (3-1, 2.58 ERA), who leads the majors with 28 home runs, makes his first pitching appearance at Yankee Stadium when he starts for the Los Angeles Angels against New York. Ohtani is set to become the first pitcher to start one game after hitting two home runs for his team since Yankees great Babe Ruth on Sept. 28, 1930. (AP Photo/File)

Babe Ruth baseball glove sells for over $1.5 million at auction

By Jacob Calvin Meyer - The Washington Times

St. Louis Cardinals' Albert Pujols, top, celebrates with Juan Yepez as he heads to the dugout after he hit home run No. 703 in his career during the fifth inning of a baseball game against the Pittsburgh Pirates, Monday, Oct. 3, 2022, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

Pujols hits 703rd home run, passes Ruth for second in RBIs

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This Date in Baseball

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Major League Baseball's all-time career home run record holder Hank Aaron and his wife Billye take a lap in a golf cart around Turner Field in Atlanta, Thursday, April, 8, 1999, after a ceremony to mark the 25th anniversary of his breaking Babe Ruth's record of 714 home runs on April 8, 1974. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

Aaron lauded for grace amid racism during home run pursuit

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Tampa Bay Rays' Randy Arozarena celebrates a home run during the first inning in Game 6 of the baseball World Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2020, in Arlington, Texas.(AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Tampa Bay outfielder Arozarena arrested in Mexico’s Yucatan

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This Date in Baseball-Week Ahead

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This Date in Baseball

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AP Sportlight

By Compiled by PAUL MONTELLA - Associated Press

This Oct. 11, 2019 photo released by SCP Auctions, Inc., shows the bat used by Babe Ruth to slug his 500th career home run in 1929. Ruth became the first player to reach the coveted plateau on Aug. 11, 1929, hitting a solo shot for the New York Yankees off Willis Hudlin at League Park in Cleveland. The bat is going up for auction, nearly 75 years after he gave it to a friend whose family has kept it ever since. (SCP Auctions, Inc. via AP)

Correction: Babe Ruth’s Bat-Auction story

By BETH HARRIS - Associated Press

This Date in Baseball

By Compiled PAUL MONTELLA - Associated Press

Auction to feature baseball signed by 11 original HOFers

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Scottsdale police: Signed baseballs worth up to $600K stolen

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FILE - In this Monday, Oct. 18, 1999 photo, Julia Ruth Stevens, the daughter of baseball legend Babe Ruth, prepares to throw out the ceremonial first pitch at the start of Game 5 of the American League Championship Series at Fenway Park in Boston. Julia Ruth Stevens, the last surviving daughter of Hall of Fame baseball slugger Babe Ruth and a champion of his legacy, has died. She was 102. Stevens' family says she died Saturday, March 9, 2019 at an assisted living facility in Henderson, Nevada, after a short illness. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)

Babe Ruth’s last surviving daughter dies in Nevada at 102

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Items left by visitors decorate the grave of George Herman &quot;Babe&quot; Ruth and Claire Ruth at the Gates of Heaven Cemetery in Hawthorne, N.Y., Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2018. Seventy years after Babe Ruth’s death, fans still flock to his grave with tributes: baseballs, bats, beer and more. The indelible slugger and larger-than-life personality died Aug. 16, 1948. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

70 years after Babe Ruth’s death, fans still flock to grave

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File - In this June 12, 1939 file photo, these baseball stars were pictured as they attended the dedication and their induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y. Front row; Eddie Collins, Babe Ruth, Connie Mack, Cy Young; Rear row left to right; Hans Wagner, Grover Cleveland Alexander, Tris Speaker, Napoleon Lajoie, George Sisler and Walter Johnson. A baseball with the signatures of Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Honus Wagner and eight other legends of the game has sold for more than $600,000. The players all signed the ball on the same day in 1939, when they had gathered to become the first class to enter the Baseball Hall of Fame. SCP Auctions said Monday, Aug. 13, 2018, that it has sold for just over $623,000. That crushes the previous record of $345,000 for a signed ball, set in 2013. (AP Photo/File)

Baseball with signatures of 11 greats fetches $623,369

By ANDREW DALTON - Associated Press

This undated file photo shows Babe Ruth. As part of its collection of Babe Ruth items, the Baseball Hall of Fame says it has the bat the slugger used to hit his then-record 60th home run in 1927. (AP Photo/File)

A tale of 2 bats, and Babe Ruth’s 60th home run in 1927

By Vin A. Cherwoo - Associated Press

New York Yankees' Didi Gregorius, right, celebrates with Aaron Judge after hitting Gregorius hit two-run home run against the Minnesota Twins during the fifth inning of a baseball game Tuesday, April 24, 2018, in New York. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

Gregorius, Sanchez, Yanks top Twins 8-3 for 4th straight win

By RONALD BLUM - Associated Press

Babe Ruth’s family to attend completion of historic trail

By BETH REED - Associated Press