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The bat Babe Ruth used to whack his longest-ever home run is finishing its journey from the cell block to the auction block.
The Louisville Slugger that the Bambino used to swat a very unofficially estimated 620-foot whopper during a 1929 exhibition game at Westchester’s Sing Sing prison is expected to pull as much as $100,000 at auction next month.
The hit was admired by 1,500 inmates who watched the ball sail over a 40-foot wall.
“Gee, I wish I was riding out of here on that one!” said an infielder on the prison team who had 10 years to go on a 25-year sentence.
It was one of three homers Ruth hit in helping the Yankees beat the inmate team 17-3.
“Ruth was expected to indulge in his specialty of smacking out homers, and he didn’t disappoint the inmates as he whaled the horsehide out of the park,” The Post reported the next day.
The bat is being offered for auction by the family of Gerald Curtin, the prison’s longtime athletic director.
The legendary homer sailed past a prison watchtower and over eight tracks of what’s now the Metro-North Railroad before landing on a bluff.
Accounts at the time estimated the homer was 620 feet. But it was never measured. Some experts peg it at a more feasible 520 feet.