History buffs and baseball fanatics alike, it’s time to get your wallets out. A contract from the 1919 transaction that sent Babe Ruth from the Boston Red Sox to the New York Yankees is up for auction. Lelands, a New York-based sports auction house, started the bidding at $100,000 on Tuesday.
Remembered as one of the most infamous exchanges in the history of the sport, the six-page contract is “the Curse of the Bambino brought to life,” as Lelands puts it. An excerpt of the item description reads:
Here, in the flesh, the stroke of the pens that changed the game of baseball, the world of sports, and our world, simultaneously.