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the dimaggio baseball alone could be worth almost $2k

Probably more like $500 to $1,000 from what I'm seeing on ebay, once authenticated. From the late 80's. The other balls look like they might be from Old Timers days - I haven't investigated all the signatures, but one signature was from a player from the early 60's, and each ball has about 20 signatures. They look like they would be less valuable unless there's some special signature on there.

I do have one long time friend who is a baseball fan, I suppose I should see if he's interested in any of them before I send them to the auction house.