Not-So-Memorable Memorabilia
Posted by: Bradley McDonald
Three years ago a fan reached over the fence and snagged some already-chewed gum that came from the mouth of Louis Gonzalez and sold it on ebay for about $10,000! Now Gonzalez's teammates won't let him forget it.
"They were following me around with a plastic bag," he said. "If I would eat potato chips, they would have a bag for it. If I would throw it in the garbage, they would pull it out and mock me.
ESPN's Page 2 takes a look at some of the more absurd memorabilia that has been sold over the years.
Three years ago a fan reached over the fence and snagged some already-chewed gum that came from the mouth of Louis Gonzalez and sold it on ebay for about $10,000! Now Gonzalez's teammates won't let him forget it.
"They were following me around with a plastic bag," he said. "If I would eat potato chips, they would have a bag for it. If I would throw it in the garbage, they would pull it out and mock me.
ESPN's Page 2 takes a look at some of the more absurd memorabilia that has been sold over the years.
After all, what better conversation piece is there than, say, owning the jockstrap Nolan Ryan wore when he pitched his seventh and final no-hitter?
Unless it's owning Ty Cobb's false teeth. Or the bone spurs removed from journeyman Jeff Nelson's pitching elbow. Or the white Ford Bronco that O.J. Simpson rode in during his infamous slow-speed chase.
Ryan's jock reportedly went for $25,000. Cobb's choppers sold for "a tad over $8,000." Nelson's bone fragments brought $2,000. And the new owner of the Bronco claims he paid $75,000 in a private sale for the vehicle that forever will be associated with Simpson on that memorable day in 1994.
