Offered is a lot of two commemorative Louisville Slugger baseball bats, engraved with the names and signatures of members of the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Chicago White Sox who met in the 1959 World Series. The first bat in this lot commemorates the 1959 World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers.  The legend “Los Angeles Dodgers World Champions 1959” is engraved in the black wood with green letters to the right of the Louisville Slugger “brand”.  Engraved in gold are the signatures of Don Zimmer, Wally Moon, Duke Snider, Jim Gilliam, “Pee Wee” Reese, Joel Becker, “Greg” Mulleavy, Chuck Dreesen, Ron Fairly, Carl Furrillo, Charles Neal, Joe Pignatano, Rip Repulski and Don Demeter.  Additional player names are engraved in block letters, including Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale.

The second bat in this lot commemorates the 1959 American League champion Chicago White Sox. The legend “Chicago White Sox American League Champions 1959” is engraved in the black wood with green letters to the right of the Louisville Slugger “brand”.  Engraved in gold are the signatures of Nelson Fox, Ray Berres, Ted Kluszewski, Norm Cash and Bill Pierce, among others, while additional player names are engraved in block letters, including Early Wynn and Turk Lown.

The 1959 World Series featured the Dodgers beating the White Sox, four games to two. Each of the three games played at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum drew record crowds, Game 5's attendance of 92,706 continues to be a World Series record to this day, and one which cannot feasibly be broken in any modern ballpark. Larry Sherry of the Dodgers was the fifth consecutive pitcher to win the World Series Most Valuable Player Award (in only the fifth year it was awarded), following Johnny Podres (Brooklyn, 1955), Don Larsen (New York, 1956), Lew Burdette (Milwaukee, 1957), and Bob Turley (New York, 1958). Sherry, who had been born with club feet, finished all four games the Dodgers won, winning two and saving two. Although he was not voted MVP, Dodger second baseman Charlie Neal batted .370 for the Series, and his two-homer performance in Game 2 came after Chicago's pitching had held L.A. scoreless for 13 consecutive innings.

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