A chunk of wood could outprice a Ferrari—wild, right? When it’s the very bat Babe Ruth used to blast balls into the Bronx sky ...

“A friend of mine helped me get a signed bat from Sachin. He even wrote my name on it,” Lokhandwala smiled.

Merian said he has been collecting since he was a child and had over 2,000 sports cards, along with autographed bats, baseballs and hats. But he lost most of his collection in the Tubbs Fire and ...