Geddy Lee is famous as the singer, bassist and keyboardist for the band Rush. But he’s also a leading collector of baseball memorabilia.

Lee will be selling some items from his collection in an upcoming auction, and the memorabilia available features connections to some of Alabama’s greatest baseball players.

Three of those items will be featured in Lee’s forthcoming book “72 Stories from the Collection of Geddy Lee.” Those items are:

· A baseball signed by 26 of the 33 players who have amassed 3,000 Major League hits, including Hank Aaron and Willie Mays. Christie’s, which is conducting the auction, estimates the ball’s value as $50,000 to $100,000.

· A baseball signed by a collection of Negro Leagues stars including Satchel Paige, Sam Bankhead and Alex Radcliffe. The estimated value of the ball is $50,000 to $75,000.

· A baseball signed by Paige, with an estimated value of $3,000 to $5,000. In 2008, Lee donated 200 baseballs autographed by Negro Leagues players to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City.

In addition to the baseball, the winning bidders will receive a copy of Lee’s book signed by the author.

The “Selections from the Geddy Lee Collection and Important Baseball Memorabilia” auction will be held in New York at 1 p.m. CST Dec. 6. An online component of the auction runs from Nov. 21 through Dec. 7.

Other items with Alabama players from Lee’s collection include an autographed baseball that Hank Aaron hit for his 730th MLB home run, which has an auction estimate of $10,000 to $20,000, and a baseball signed by Heinie Manush, which has an auction estimate of $2,000 to $4,000.

Items included in the auction from outside Lee’s collection also feature connections to Alabama’s Hall of Fame players, including the piece that might fetch the biggest bid.

Christie’s has put an auction estimate of $500,000 to $1 million on a Hank Aaron jersey, which the Mobile native was wearing when he hit his 500th MLB home run for the Atlanta Braves in a National League game against the San Francisco Giants on July 14, 1968.

Other items available connected to players with Alabama baseball roots (with the auction estimate) include:

· 1952 MLB All-Star Game Satchel Paige bat: $300,000 to $500,000

· Glove signed by Satchel Paige: $50,000 to $75,000

· 1966 game-used glove signed by Willie Mays: $25,000 to $50,000

· Bat signed by Hank Aaron: $15,000 to $25,000

Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter at @AMarkG1.