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Joe DiMaggio-Marilyn Monroe marriage certificate sells for $123K

The marriage certificate from Joe DiMaggio's nine-month fling with Marilyn Monroe sold for $122,500 on Sunday.

Ken Goldin, founder and CEO of Goldin Auctions, told ABC News the 1954 document was bought in June from a private collector who had acquired it from a DiMaggio estate auction in 2006.

"It is a historic document that ties together the golden age of Hollywood and baseball Royalty," Goldin told ABC News.

DiMaggio, the Hall of Fame center fielder for the New York Yankees from 1936 to '51.