Comments on: Someone bought Babe Ruth’s jersey for $4.4 million

By: jfk69

jfk69 — Mon, 21 May 2012 23:50:47 +0000

I am selling the Babes underwear. It has light brown stains on the rear and yellow patches in the front. It has been hermetically sealed in a glass jar that has sat on my front porch for many years and is verifiable by funk and wagnalls.
ALL BIDS WILL BE CONSIDERED

By: deadeyedesign23

deadeyedesign23 — Mon, 21 May 2012 22:33:11 +0000

Can we talk about how dope the baby blue on the lettering looks?

By: daviddmsvcp

daviddmsvcp — Mon, 21 May 2012 21:22:55 +0000

Someone has way too much money.

By: stlouis1baseball

stlouis1baseball — Mon, 21 May 2012 20:40:38 +0000

All very good questions Mabry.

By: hojo20

hojo20 — Mon, 21 May 2012 20:27:20 +0000

A guy from the Ruth jersey’s auction house was just on Mike Francesa’s show in NYC and he couldn’t straight give answers on how it was authenticated. He told Mike “you’re too late” and hung up on him. It’s hard to say this is an authentic Ruth-worn jersey when no one alive knows what happened to it before the memorabilia craze. How could anyone now know truly know where the jersey was from 1930-1950?

By: florida727

florida727 — Mon, 21 May 2012 19:57:26 +0000

I actually wrote a book about sports memorabilia a long time ago. Even back then, an FBI agent that I interviewed for the piece told me that it was a $1+ billion per year industry just in the USA. The biggest problem with pieces is, of course, authentication. Some auction places put an emphasis on chain-of-custody, while others actually use forensics to validate pieces, especially where autographs are concerned. It’s, unfortunately, an industry riddled with scam artists. The only way to be reasonably sure of a piece’s authenticity is if you get a piece directly from the person obtaining the signatures or item from its source.

By: The Dangerous Mabry

The Dangerous Mabry — Mon, 21 May 2012 19:04:05 +0000

So…they were the highest bidder at auction, and plan to sell it? Who exactly do they plan to sell it to? Wouldn’t anyone who would be interested have outbid them at the auction?

Sports memorabilia confuses me.

By: harrysatchel

harrysatchel — Mon, 21 May 2012 18:26:10 +0000

Did there appear to be any mustard stains on the uniform…perhaps driving up the price?

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Mon, 21 May 2012 18:21:08 +0000

Four point four for the Babe’s jersey, and only a million and change for the Mongolian Tyrannosaur skeleton. I guess the Babe had a better era than the Tyrannosaurus did.

By: phillyphan83

phillyphan83 — Mon, 21 May 2012 17:42:26 +0000

first, hilarious San lot reference, one of the best sports movies of all-time! second, why was this EVER taken out of the Babe Ruth museum???

By: number42is1

number42is1 — Mon, 21 May 2012 17:28:49 +0000

For those of you who have no idea who this “babe ruth” chick is