Sold for
$717,000
Long before Major
League Baseball players were awarded World Series rings to mark their
victories, teams celebrated championship titles by gifting their
athletes commemorative watches. One of the most coveted of these World
Series timepieces was owned by legendary New York Yankee outfielder Babe
Ruth, whose Gruen Verithin 1923 World Series championship pocketwatch
was auctioned on February 22, 2014, in New York City, by Dallas-based
Heritage Auctions. The watch, significant in that it was “the first
piece of championship hardware that Ruth ever won,” went for $717,000.
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