When modern baseball fans hear that Babe Ruth’s bat weighed 44 ounces, they usually think it’s a typo. For context, most of today’s MLB sluggers swing bats between 31 and 33 ounces.

When it’s the very bat Babe Ruth used to blast balls into the Bronx sky, collectors don’t blink at million-dollar bids. In some cases, these bats have sold for more than luxury cars. 10 ...