Antiques Roadshow

GUEST: My mother, as a young girl in Newark, New Jersey, decided that she wanted to go to greener pastures, and in 1934, off she went alone to St. Petersburg, Florida, became a hotel elevator operator... APPRAISER: Mm-hmm.

GUEST: and realized that the Yankees were about to take spring training at the hotel where she was working.

She was a very pretty young lady.

She was somewhere in the general vicinity of 18 or 19.

APPRAISER: Wow, which is a big deal in 1934, to head down to St. Petersburg.

GUEST: A very big deal, yes.

Alone.

APPRAISER: As great as the Babe was, the gentlemen who had the two greatest years in 1934: Lefty Gomez and Lou Gehrig.

But Lefty, who they called El Goofy, had the triple crown of pitchers that year.

Lou Gehrig had his MVP season that year.

This is one of the greatest Yankee teams never to have made it to the World Series.

So your mom caught the tail end of one of the great dynasties in baseball.

I would put an auction estimate of about $10,000 to $15,000 on this.

GUEST: Wow.