Joe Morgan's personal collection is up for public bidding today at the Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory, where Hunt Auctions has a live sale set for 11 a.m. ET.
The house says Theresa Morgan is presenting the selection publicly for the first time, and that each of those lots comes with a letter of provenance, according to Hunt Auctions. Provenance paperwork will not tell anyone what a glove is worth. It does put a name and a chain of custody on material that has not been shopped this way before.
From Houston to the Hall
Morgan, the second baseman who helped lead Cincinnati's Big Red Machine to back-to-back championships, left a collection that runs well past one era in one city. Local 12 reported that Hunt is selling hundreds of items from the personal collection, spanning his career from Houston through San Francisco.
The Big Red Machine-era material includes one of his MVP awards, a glove and a bat he used, and the ring he received from the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Rings, bats and a working glove are a different kind of lot from a signed photo: they are objects tied to the job, not just the name.
One World Series ring was estimated before the sale at $50,000 to $100,000. Hunt told Local 12 the result could land far outside that band: "We have a $50,000 to $100,000 range estimated pre-auction. It could end up being $35,000, it could end up being 300,000." That is less a forecast than a reminder that two bidders can rewrite a catalog number.
Live Floor, Then a Late Close
The live session is scheduled for Saturday, November 14, 2026, at 11 a.m. ET at the museum and factory. A start time is not a sold-out recap. Nothing in the listing establishes what any lot has brought.
More of the Morgan material sits in the online-only portion, as lots 546 through 676. Online-only lots numbered 400 through the end are scheduled to close Sunday, November 15, at 10 p.m. ET, with bidding continuing in 20-minute intervals. A scheduled close is a clock, not proof that the hammer has fallen.
What Last Year's Sale Brought
Last November's Hunt live auction is the nearest public comparison, and those prices are already settled. Auction Report said a Babe Ruth bat dated 1920–22 sold for $364,250. The report described it as a 40.4-ounce professional-model bat with a corked barrel treatment — heavy by any modern standard, and still the headline number of that sale.
The same results included a Ted Williams Boston Red Sox professional-model home jersey from the 1950s at $176,250, and a Mickey Mantle New York Yankees professional-model hat from about 1951–63 at $141,000. Useful as a price neighborhood. Not a template for what Morgan's lots will do today or Sunday night.
Aaron Jerseys, Other Rooms
Game-worn Hank Aaron material has cleared very different numbers in other rooms. Yahoo Sports reported that a 1963 game-worn Aaron jersey sold for $168,000 at a Grey Flannel auction in Arizona. The same report said a 1954 game-worn rookie jersey had sold for $2.1 million the previous year.
Those are other auctions and other garments. They show how far apart two jerseys from one career can land, which is the only honest use of the comparison while this sale is still on the clock.
Bidders still in the Morgan lots have the live session today and, for lots 546 through 676, a Sunday night close that can stretch in 20-minute steps after 10 p.m. ET. Until those intervals stop, the catalog's range is still a guess.
