Notice to patient Readers: Due to atmospheric disturbances on the Sea Rocks, the Objective Observatory’s broadband wireless internet receiver was hit by lightning or its moral equivalent. Thus, this column will go out by old-fashioned dial-up, and it may take some time to get to you. We apologize for the technical fault (but not, of course, for any content). The title for today’s column came from watching Antique Roadshow on Public Television; this consists of experts telling astounded plain people how much the junk they have around the house is worth. On this day, there was discussion of the value of “historic” (not our term) baseballs and baseball bats. Numbers in the six figures were mentioned. Now, you may not know that the OO has the largest collection of Heintz silver-on-bronze ware on all of Anguilla (and possibly the entire Lesser Antilles). So respect for the old and curious is rampant around here. But, we are not bidding over $100,000 for any baseball bat, nor anything similar for a baseball, whatever its “Provenance” (not the section of France, but the record of its possession).

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