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He’s going to sleeping outside with about 9 bodyguards doing the same or he’s going to get rolled.
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Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Ruth 'called shot' jersey sells for record $24.12M
Babe Ruth's game-worn Yankees jersey from when he "called his shot" in Game 3 of the 1932 World Series sold at auction for a record $24.12 million.
Babe Ruth 'called shot' Yankees jersey fetches record $24M
In perhaps the most anticipated sports memorabilia auction ever, the jersey worn by baseball legend Babe Ruth when he "called his shot" in Game 3 of the 1932 World Series has sold for $24.12 million with Heritage Auctions, setting an auction record for most expensive sports collectible.
The sale of the New York Yankees road Ruth jersey, which includes the standard 20% buyer's premium, was available to the public for the first time in 19 years.
The previous record price for any sports collectible sold at auction was for a rare mint condition Topps 1952 Mickey Mantle card, which sold for $12.6 million in 2022. The Ruth jersey also far eclipsed the $10.1 million that a Michael Jordan Chicago Bulls jersey from Game 1 of the 1998 NBA Finals fetched at auction that same year.
The last time the Ruth jersey sold at auction was 2005, when it went for $940,000, but it was only linked to the 1932 World Series -- not conclusively Game 3 or the "called shot," when Ruth made a pointing gesture while at bat and then hit the home run into center field off Cubs pitcher Charlie Root. But multiple companies in recent years photo-matched the jersey to Game 3 of the World Series at Wrigley Field, which increased its value exponentially.
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