Sports: Baseball Signed By Legends Hits "Home Run" at Auction

A baseball signed by Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Ty Cobb, Cy Young, Tris Speaker, reports from L.A.

George Sisler, Walter Johnson, Connie Mack, Nap Lajoie, Eddie Collins and Pete Alexander — in 1939, at their induction ceremony into the Baseball Hall of Fame — just sold for $623,369, AP's Andrew Dalton

• "That crushes the record of $345,000 for a signed baseball, set in 2013 for a Ruth-Gehrig ball."
• The only original inductee who was living at the time "who didn't sign the ball was Lou Gehrig, who on that day was headed to the Mayo Clinic ... [H]e'd been diagnosed with ALS, the disease that would end his career, take his life and unofficially bear his name."