Posted on 11/01/2025 2:13:41 PM PDT by DFG
This is a real catch.
Yogi Berra’s game-worn, signed 1947 New York Yankees rookie jersey is on the auction block — and could fetch up to $1 million.
The sale of the one-of-a-kind pinstriped piece of baseball history — which was rescued from the Boys & Girls Club in East Harlem — ain’t over until Nov. 16 at Grey Flannel Auctions’ Holiday Auction.
“The interest in this piece has been extraordinary. Based on the level of enthusiasm we’ve seen from collectors, we wouldn’t be surprised to see it break records and sell somewhere in the neighborhood of $1 million,” Michael Russek, director at Grey Flannel Auctions, told The Post.
The record sale for a sports jersey is $24.12 million for a 1932 Babe Ruth World Series jersey.
Bronx native Ron Marino’s cousin, Sonny, who lived in the Italian section of East Harlem and went to the local Boys & Girls Club, was the first one to get his hands on the priceless sports memorabilia. He then generously gifted the flannel jersey to Ron in 1959.
“The Yankees were cleaning out a lot of the back storage rooms at Yankee Stadium and jerseys had very little value at that point in time. And what he told me was that there were big cardboard boxes full of jerseys. So he said, ‘I put my hand in, we were limited to one each, and I picked this one out, and I’ll give it to you,'” Ron, 77, who received the jersey at age 10, told The Post.
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Why can’t I find these things?
*Sob!
Looking through the junkyard at the Marshall Space Flight Center, I found a Pegasus satellite. They didn’t let me keep it.
Super!!! Hope it reaches that...One of my favorite Yankees back in the ‘40’s....
:D
A buddy’s father played minor league ball and spent a Spring training with the Brooklyn Dodgers. He was given a jersey without a number for his tryouts which he kept after being sent back to the farm. My buddy’s family still has the jersey with the feint stitching holes on the back revealing the previous number ‘1’ and “Reese” written inside the collar.
2015 - Lombardi sweater sells for $43,000
A sweater bought last year for 58 cents at a Goodwill store sold Saturday night in an auction in New York City for $43,020.
It pays to be alert. You can observe a lot by just watching.
It ain’t sold till it’s sold.
I have no problem with making a lot of money off of this discovery, but I have a feeling a lot of the rich folks who will bid on this, don’t even know who he was. It’ll just be a commodity, an “investment”.
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