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Rare find: Iowa woman nearly sells $20K Jackie Robinson baseball bat for $1

Bat will be featured on Antiques Roadshow

An Iowa woman nearly sells a baseball bat in a garage sale that belonged to baseball legend Jackie Robinson.

The woman tried selling it for $1, but a man caught her off guard when he realized it was Robinson’s from the print on the bat’s barrel and the more oversized knob at the end.

An Iowa woman nearly sells a baseball bat in a garage sale that belonged to baseball legend Jackie Robinson. (Copyright 2024 by WDIV ClickOnDetroit - All rights reserved.)

The gem is all thanks to a particular connection she had with Robinson.

Her uncle played baseball with him back in the late 1940s.

The bat will be featured on Antiques Roadshow. It’s worth $15,000 to $20,000.

An Iowa woman nearly sells a baseball bat in a garage sale that belonged to baseball legend Jackie Robinson. (Copyright 2024 by WDIV ClickOnDetroit - All rights reserved.)

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Brandon Carr is a digital content producer for ClickOnDetroit and has been with WDIV Local 4 since November 2021. Brandon is the 2015 Solomon Kinloch Humanitarian award recipient for Community Service.

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