Impressive collection of five official Louisville Slugger baseball bats individually signed on the barrel in black felt tip by an American president: Jimmy Carter, George Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama. Each bat, with the exception of the Obama example, bears a burn-branded name of the signing president. In overall very fine condition.
Accompanied by full letters of authenticity from PSA/DNA for each bat, and additional provenance material, which includes: e-mail correspondence with Jimmy Carter’s son, Jeff, and Lauren Gilstrap, executive assistant to President Carter; two certificates of authenticity from the George Bush Presidential Library Museum Store for both Bush-signed bats; a picture of Clinton signing the bat and a Xerox of an invitation to meet Clinton at a small fundraiser in New York on June 3, 2010; and a lengthy e-mail correspondence with Emily Berret, personal assistant of Nancy Pelosi, which includes a TLS from Pelosi from 2016.
From the Randy L. Kaplan collection, which has been exhibited at multiple presidential museums around the country as well as at the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Garden City, New York.
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