CLEVELAND, Ohio – An historic bat used by Babe Ruth with ties to Ohio State sold at auction last month for $364,250, Hunt Auctions announced.

The 40.4-ounce bat was used by the Yankee slugger, baseball’s home run king, circa 1920-22.

It sold at the 22nd annual Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory live auction, which included more than 700 lots of historic baseball memorabilia.

Hunt Auctions deemed it the “Buckeye State” Babe Ruth professional model baseball bat.

The bat had been discovered recently, the auction house said, having descended within the family of former Ohio State Athletic Director Richard C. Larkins.

Ruth played for Boston for six years before he was sold to New York for the 1920 season in an era long before free agency.

Game bats from this point in Ruth’s Hall of Fam

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