Sotheby's Stengel Pieces Go Crazy

[Eric]

Some really big prices for some of the items from the Casey Stengel collection in the Sotheby's auction today

231: Casey Stengel's 1951 New York Yankees World Series Ring
$150,000.00

263: Casey Stengel's 1969 New York Mets World Series Ring
$65,000.00

253: Casey Stengel's 1957 New York Yankees AL Championship Gold Cufflinks
$60,000.00

252: Casey Stengel's Personal Collection of (12) New York Yankees Commemorative Black Bats
$22,500.00

269: Casey Stengel's Personal Hall of Fame Induction Plaques and Photo Albums
$20,000.00

227: Casey Stengel's 1948 Oakland Acorns PCL Championship Ring
$10,000.00

237: Casey Stengel's 1953-54 New York Yankees Managerial Contract
$10,000.00

243: Casey Stengel's 1954 H&B All-Star Game Bat
$8,000.00

232: Casey Stengel's 1950's New York Yankees Wool Cap & Cleats
$6,500.00

258: Casey Stengel's 1963 and 1964 New York Mets Managerial Contracts
$6,000.00

[lund6771]

are these prices posted on their website?...i can't find them...thanks

[Eric]

they're on ebay live auctions

[TNTtoys]

Ahhhh, the Stengel collection... at first I thought we were talking about the Stangel collection!

[Ripken]

Those prices, by the way, don't include the buyer's premium of 20%.

http://www.sportscollectorsdaily.com...7-million.html

[Eric]

Ahhhh, the Stengel collection... at first I thought we were talking about the Stangel collection!

Take off a few zeroes and you've got the Stangel collection

[Eric]

Reed's Jersey From 1970 NBA Finals Sold for $90,000 at Auction

By Dan Bollerman
June 6 (Bloomberg) -- The New York Knicks jersey worn by an injured Willis Reed when he limped onto the Madison Square Garden court to help win the seventh game of the 1970 National Basketball Association Finals was sold for $90,000 yesterday at an auction.
A sale of the 343 lots of sports memorabilia in New York brought in $4.73 million, Sotheby's, which handled the sale with SCP Auctions, said in a news release. The most expensive was the 1951 New York Yankees' World Series ring of Hall of Fame manager Casey Stengel, which went for $180,000.
Reed, who had a knee injury, came onto the court at the start of the final game of the best-of-seven series against the Los Angeles Lakers and made the first two shots of the contest. He played 27 minutes in the Knicks' 113-99 victory. It was the first of the franchise's two NBA championships.
The jersey was one of more than 80 lots of basketball uniform items from the collection of Alan Schlesinger, owner of Alchemy Management LLC in Great Neck, New York, and former head of high yield at UBS AG.
A bat used by Babe Ruth sold for $162,000, while a picture of Ruth hugging Yankees Hall-of-Famer Lou Gehrig during the July 4, 1939, appreciation day for Gehrig and signed by both sold for $120,000. Stengel's 1969 New York Mets' World Series ring sold for $78,000.
A 1931 home jersey worn by Gehrig, estimated to sell for at least $200,000, went unsold after the final bid didn't meet the reserve price set.
Sotheby's declined to identify the buyers.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...wgE&refer=muse