Posted on 08/25/2024 8:54:03 AM PDT by DFG
Babe Ruth is still setting records in 2024.
The road jersey the Yankees legend wore when he called his shot in Game 3 of the 1932 World Series against the Cubs sold for $24.12 million at Heritage Auctions, shattering the record as the most expensive sports collectible ever.
The previous record, per ESPN, was a mint Topps 1952 Mickey Mantle card — one of the holy grails among card collectors — that was graded 9.5 by SGC, which sold for $12.6 million in August 2022.
A month later, Michael Jordan’s “Last Dance” Bulls jersey from Game 1 of the 1998 NBA Finals sold for $10.1 million.
According to Heritage Auctions, Ruth gave the jersey to a friend he played golf with in Florida around 1940, and the man’s daughter sold it to a collector in the early 1990s, per the Associated Press. It then sold for $940,000 at auction in 2005.
At that time, the jersey was only linked to the ’32 World Series, and it wasn’t until the last few years that it was photo-matched to Game 3, according to ESPN.
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Life is like Monopoly.
Yeah, I got Two of those....
A fool and his money are soon parted.
Does either one have mustard on them?
Who was the fool who bought it?
My bro and I had plenty of Topps cards from bubble gum. Babe Ruth and Mickey Mantle were prizes...but only because they were considered cool...way back when. Who knew we should have saved them. I’m 80 so we’re talking the 50s
Just think of the extra special environment this will have to be kept in...a/c, humidity controlled, lighting. I probably missed a hundred other things.
Damn. I missed out on the auction.
Throwing the cost of security and insurance etc etc.
Can’t imagine people having this much money where they can spend it on a shirt.
I’m trying to imagine an item of sports memorabilia which might realize as much auction value as the Babe’s iconic photo-matched called-shot jersey. Perhaps Lou Gehrig’s jersey from his 1939 retirement ceremony (”I consider myself the luckiest manmanman on the face of the earthearthearth.”)
I’ll have to get one off ebay. Wear it for gardening.
whomever bought it will also have to protect it from Climate Change.
Absolutely.
Got to be a tax write off on that sort of thing some place?.
Per the article is sold for $940,000 in 2005. Probably also crazy back then.
Is $940,000 to $21,100,000 in 11 years a bad “investment”?
Will it sell for more than a van Gogh in another 11 years?
Yes, gilded age. Wars often follow.
I’ve seen Las Vegas casinos do these auction stunts. Display it in the lobby. Draw in the punters. Claw back the money in 6 months.
Someone who can afford $24 million like I can afford five bucks, because five bucks is about all I’d have paid.
Saaaaay, isn't that Babe Ruth's jersey?
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