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NEW YORK – The Yankees and their memorabilia partner, Steiner Sports, on Tuesday announced plans to sell artifacts from the old Yankee Stadium.See if you can pick out the actual items for sale and those we just made up:
• Piece of live sod: $120 for 1x1 foot; $280 for 2x2 feet
• 17 partially eaten Babe Ruth hot-dog buns: $3,333 each
• Pair of stadium seats: $1,499.99
• Yogi Berra's unfinished Master's thesis in English: $8,000
• The bat rack from the Yankees dugout: auction item
• Phil Rizzuto scorebook (unused): $750
• Bricks from Monument Park with etched Yankees logo: $149
• Forty-seven water coolers punched by Paul O'Neill: $650
• Pieces of the frieze (the white arched fence that ran around the rim of the stadium) made into paperweights and keychains: TBD
• The actual straw Reggie Jackson used to "stir the drink:" $999
• Derek Jeter's little black book: auction item, starting bid of $200,000
• Two bleacher bench seats: $399.99
• George Steinbrenner's hand-written list of managers he wanted to hire in 1995 before Joe Torre: auction item
• Freeze-dried grass: $80
• The piece of wall Kevin Brown punched in September 2004: auction item
• The 80-foot-wide piece of sod from behind home plate painted with the interlocking NY logo, which can be transplanted into your yard: $50,000
• David Wells' asprin bottle from the day he pitched a perfect game hung over: $200
• "No autographs" sign: $250
• Alex Rodriguez's used "Like A Virgin" CD: $8.99
• Drink cup spilled when Jeffrey Maier caught Jeter's 1996 ALCS homer: auction item
OK, You can probably figure out what's real and what isn't. Except maybe a few: the freeze-dried grass, pieces of the frieze and the NY logo sod are all real.
After a year and half of negotiating with New York City, which owned the stadium, the Yankees agreed to pay the city $11.5 million for the rights to everything. The Yankees are taking some heat for shortchanging the city, but team COO Lonn Trost pointed out that the city's deal with the Mets – 70 percent of net revenues from selling Shea Stadium memorabilia – has earned the city $3.5 million.
Yankee Stadium items will be unveiled for sale periodically from now on, with 1,500 internet auctions running through July 24.
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