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Eric
12-08-2005, 08:12 PM
From the New York Daily News- December 4 "The Score" By Michael O'Keeffe & Anthony McCarron

Hot List

The Yankees may need the money - they lost millions last season - but that's surely not why they're holding the first memorabilia auction at Yankee Stadium on Friday from 3-6 p.m., put on by Yankees-Steiner Collectibles and Grey Flannel Auctions. In case you want in on the auction action, here are some the hottest items available. They range in value from $1,000 to $100,000:

1. The Yankee Stadium organ, played by late legend Eddie Layton.

2. Joe Torre's desk.

3. The earliest known autographed Mickey Mantle bat.

4. A Babe Ruth game-used bat.

5. Jerseys worn by Bernie Williams, Paul O'Neil, Mariano Rivera, Tino Martinez and more.

6. A game-used Roger Clemens jersey from his first season as a Yankee.

7. A 1942 Joe DiMaggio game-used pinstripe jersey.

8. Mickey Mantle's 1955 game-used autographed jersey.

9. A section of Yankee Stadium's outfield wall pad, including the 388-foot marker.

10. Derek Jeter's 2005 Opening Day jersey.

Eric
12-08-2005, 08:14 PM
From The Journal News

Sweet sounds of Yankee Stadium available

By BRIAN HEYMAN
THE JOURNAL NEWS
(Original Publication: December 7, 2005)

The Rye Garnets are the state champs now. They deserve a few big-time amenities. So how about the inspiring sounds of an organ to accompany P.A. announcer Steve Feeney with player introductions and to pump up the fans at Nugent Stadium next season?

But not any old organ. How about having the Rye Booster Club buy the one the late Eddie Layton used to play for the crowds at Yankee Stadium? Feeney started laughing at the thought of this potential perk.

"Oh my gosh, I don't know if we have a power cord that could run from the school out to the stadium," said Feeney, the current vice president of the Rye Board of Education, one of three generations of former Rye football players and a member of the Rye Booster Club.

"Even if they could afford it, I think they would invest otherwise,'' Feeney said, laughing again.

Oh well. Someone else can buy the organ. Because it is indeed available. In fact, a preliminary online bid of $25,000 has already been made. It's one of more than 200 items of Yankees and Yankee Stadium-related memorabilia that will be up for live bidding on Friday from 3-6 p.m. Yankees-Steiner Collectibles and Grey Flannel Auctions will be conducting the first auction ever held at the Stadium.

A heated tent is being erected over the third-base field boxes for the bidders.

Those who want to attend can register for a free ticket at www.steinersports.com or www.greyflannelauctions.com. There are around 800 related items available through tomorrow online at those sites as well. Bidders can look over the live-auction items tomorrow afternoon and Friday morning at the Stadium.

Want Joe Torre's comfy chair from the manager's office? That's also available.

A ball signed by Babe Ruth and a game-used Babe bat are up for grabs, along with a Mickey Mantle game bat as well as a jersey that he autographed, plus jerseys worn by Joe DiMaggio, Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera, Bernie Williams, Roger Clemens, Paul O'Neill and Tino Martinez. Padding from the outfield wall with the 399-foot marker on it can be had, too.

Items up for bidding are valued from $1,000 to $100,000-plus.

"A lot of the stuff was at Yankee Stadium in the basement," said Brandon Steiner, the Scarsdale resident who heads Steiner Sports Marketing in New Rochelle and entered his partnership with the Yankees late last year. "There was almost 15, 20 years' worth of stuff. We have even more of it that we're saving. Probably, we'll do an annual auction."

Eric
12-09-2005, 08:32 PM
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The first auction of baseball memorabilia held at Yankee Stadium fetched more than $3 million over two days, including $110,000 for a 1955 game-worn autographed Mickey Mantle jersey, organizers said on Friday.
Other highlights included $30,000 for a Babe Ruth jersey and $26,000 for the organ played over the decades by stadium fixture Eddie Layton.
Yankee Manager Joe Torre's office chair fetched $5,500, a Yankee flag that was flown from the outfield sold for $9,000, and the 319-foot (97-meter) marker that once graced the outfield fence was won with a winning bid of $3,500.
The auction, conducted online on Thursday and then under a heated tent erected over the field box seats near third base on Friday, was staged by Yankees-Steiner Collectibles and Grey Flannel Auctions.

Eric
12-10-2005, 09:01 AM
From NY Post 12-10-05

THE MICK'S JERSEY A CASH COW

By JOHN MAZOR and BILL SANDERSON
Mickey Mantle items were a big hit at the first-ever auction of Bronx Bomber memorabilia at Yankee Stadium yesterday — with one of The Mick's game-day jerseys selling for $110,000, and one of his bats going for $22,000.
Mantle memorabilia went for higher prices than Joe DiMaggio items — which included a game-used jersey that sold for $75,000.
"Mantle has really gotten hot," said Brandon Steiner, of Steiner Sports Marketing, which oversaw the auction in a tent set up on the third-base line near home plate.
Also sold to an Internet bidder was the organ used by the famed Eddie Layton from 1985 to 2003, which went for $26,000, said Dan Feldman of Gray Flannel Auctions, which also participated in the event.
A Babe Ruth bat was also sold over the Internet for $27,000, Feldman said.
Some of the façade from the interior of the Yankees' Stadium Club was sold at the live auction for $2,000.
"Amazing!" said Steiner. "They were going to throw those things out."
The longtime stadium organ — a Hammond Colonnade 200 — went to an unidentified buyer.
Although the big-ticket items are gone, the auction isn't over yet. Steiner is selling more Yankees memorabilia on its Web site, steinersports.com — and Brandon Steiner said the remaining items are more affordable.