Iconic baseball figure Babe Ruth's prized jersey is being sold at auction for an unprecedented $24 million.
Previously, the highest bid went for a 1952 trading card of baseball legend Mickey Mantle, clocking in at a whopping $12.6 million two years back. Babe Ruth once donned that jersey in a legendary game versus the Chicago Cubs during the 1932 World Series finale. It's believed that prior to his monumental homer, he pointed the direction where the ball would eventually end up. Post-retirement, he generously gave the jersey to a golf buddy. Before the auction on a Sunday, it had switched hands three times, with the latest transaction happening in 2005 at $940,000.
The New York Yankees are the historic team that Babe Ruth played for, making iconic moments like his point towards the location of his famous homerun during a game against the Chicago Cubs in the 1932 World Series finale. After retiring, Ruth gifted his jersey to a golf buddy, but decades later, a different 1952 trading card of another Yankees legend, Mickey Mantle, fetched a higher price at an auction.
