Babe Ruth road jersey fetches $4.4 million at auction

SPORTS MEMORABILIA:BABE RUTH’S first season with the New York Yankees, 1920, is still reverberating. He batted .376, hit 54 home runs and drove in 137 runs. Attendance at the Polo Grounds more than doubled to 1.29 million. It was the season when the future Yankees dynasty began to take shape.

Babe Ruth’s jersey, cap bring record prices

Babe Ruth is still the king in sports memorabilia, if not in baseball’s record books. Two items of clothing worn by the New York Yankees’ slugger brought record prices at auction over the weekend. The earliest known Yankees jersey worn by Ruth, circa 1920, brought more than $4.42 million, according to SPC Auctions . That tops the $4.34 million paid for James Naismith’s 1891 typed list of the ...

Report: Pryor Used Money From Memorabilia To Help Family

According to an article published in the new issue of Sports Illustrated, former Ohio State Buckeye Terrell Pryor used the money he made from selling his sports memorabilia to help his family.

Ruth Jersey Sells for $4.4 Million, Nearly Quadruple Previous High for Ruth Memorabilia

The auction price for a 1920s Babe Ruth jersey, nearly quadruple the previous high for a piece of his memorabilia, surprised appraisers and reflected his enduring star power.

Report: Pryor used money to help family

Terrell Pryor sold his sports memorabilia at Ohio State to get money to help his family, he said in an interview with Sports Illustrated.