Baseball shirt breaks sports memorabilia record
A jersey worn by baseball legend Babe Ruth has sold for $4,415,656 (£2.79 million) at auction, making it the most expensive piece of sports memorabilia ever sold.
The auction house Leland purchased the shirt which is the earliest jersey worn by Ruth known to still exist, a circa 1920 New York Yankees away shirt he wore in his first season after moving from the Boston Red Sox. The jersey's price surpassed the $4,338,500 (£2.72m) paid in 2010 for Dr. James Naismith's founding rules of basketball called the "Bible of Basketball" making Ruth's the most expensive sports memorabilia in history. SCP Auctions ran the sale and had been speculating it would go for at least $1 million.
Other Ruth items were sold at the auction, including a 1930s-era cap Ruth wore that another former Yankee player David Wells owned and used in a game in 1997 that went for $537,278 (£339,745); while one of Ruth's game-used bats went for $591,007 (£373,720).