{"id":1231,"date":"2017-09-05T18:39:39","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T18:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/life\/12-million-legendary-collectible-baseball-bats-at-the-long-beach-expo-this-week\/"},"modified":"2017-09-05T18:39:39","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T18:39:39","slug":"12-million-legendary-collectible-baseball-bats-at-the-long-beach-expo-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/12-million-legendary-collectible-baseball-bats-at-the-long-beach-expo-this-week","title":{"rendered":"$2 Million Legendary Collectible Baseball Bats at the Long Beach Expo this Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Mike Trout Professional Model Bat. Photos courtesy of Long Beach Expo.<\/em><\/p>\n

Collectors Universe<\/a> will be presenting their $2 million legendary collectible baseball bats at the Long Beach Expo<\/a> this Thursday September 7 to Saturday, September 9, offering an opportunity for the public to view and hold.<\/p>\n

The remarkable collection features 12 unique, game-used bats from legends like Babe Ruth, Willie Mays, Lou Gehrig, Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio, Mike Trout and Derek Jeter.<\/p>\n

In addition to the collection, there will be a signing opportunity with Los Angeles Kings alumni Daryl Evans, Ice Crew and mascot Bailey. The U.S. Mint will also be offering exclusive products for sale, the Heritage Auctions<\/a> will be hosting a multi-million dollar auction, and an opportunity to meet the world\u2019s most renowned dealers to review your collections and buy or sell collectible items.<\/p>\n

Since 1964, the Long Beach Expo has been a leading international tradition in the coin, currency, sports memorabilia, stamp and collectibles industry hosted by Collectors Universe, Inc., the leader in third-party grading and authentication services for high-value collectibles.<\/p>\n

For more information, visit the website here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Long Beach Expo will be at the Long Beach Convention & Entertainment Center in Hall A, located at 100 South Pine Avenue.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Editor’s note:<\/strong> a previous version of this story stated the approximate value of the bat collection as $12 million as announced by organizers, however, the current value is in fact $2 million.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Collectors Universe will be presenting their $2 million legendary collectible baseball bats at the Long Beach Expo starting this Thursday, offering an opportunity for the public to view and hold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":66681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[669],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hi-lo","tag-collectible-bats","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1231"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=1231"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}