Going, Going... Gone!
The original contract depicting the sale of Babe Ruth from the Red Sox to the Yankees was sold at auction for $996,000 this week. That got me thinking: how much would other famous baseball items go for. Items like:

- The steroid-filled needle that Jose Canseco shoved up Mark McGwire’s ass while the two were teammates in Oakland.

- An original Ken Griffey Jr. medical bill.

- The ball that Bert Blyleven threw when he gave up his 50th home run in 1986 – still a record.

- The blouse that Keith Olbermann’s mother was wearing when she was hit by Chuck Knoblauch’s errant throw while sitting behind first base at Yankee Stadium.

- Tommy John’s original elbow.

- Bar tabs from the 1950s and 1960s New York Yankees – teams with such legendary drinkers as Billy Martin, Mickey Mantle, Whitey Ford and Don Larsen.

- Gaylord Perry’s medicine cabinet. (If you read Liners, Sliders and Scoops not for the baseball but for the attempted hilarity, please note that Gaylord Perry is a Hall-of-Fame pitcher known for “scuffing up” the ball with all sorts of concoctions – Vaseline, sandpaper, anything – to make it easier for himself to move the ball around and harder for the batter to hit it.)