Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory — Venue for Scheduled Collection Auction
Joe Morgan’s personal collection is up for public bidding today at the Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory, where Hunt Auctions has a live sale set for 11 a.m. ET.
The house says Theresa Morgan is presenting the selection publicly for the first time, and that each of those lots comes with a letter of provenance, according to Hunt Auctions. Provenance paperwork will not tell anyone what a glove is worth. It does put a name and a chain of custody on material that has not been shopped this way before.
From Houston to the Hall
Morgan, the second baseman who helped lead Cincinnati’s Big Red Machine to back-to-back championships, left a collection that runs well past one era in one city. Local 12 reported that Hunt is selling hundreds of items from the personal collection, spanning his career from Houston through San Francisco…