Lou Gehrig ticket stub could fetch $100k at auction
| NEW YORK
A聽ticket聽stub聽signed by聽Lou聽Gehrig聽on July 4, 1939 鈥� the day he retired from baseball 鈥� is going on the auction block.
Heritage Auctions says more than 60,000聽tickets聽to the game at Yankee Stadium were sold. Only two are known to have survived.
Of the two, only the mezzanine box聽ticket聽was signed by聽Gehrig. It is estimated to bring over $100,000 at the Aug. 1 sale in Cleveland.
The owner is an unidentified collector.
Gehrig聽retired after being diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, now known as聽Lou聽Gehrig's聽disease. In his farewell speech that day, he said, "I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth."
Heritage's director of sports memorabilia, Chris Ivy, calls it "the most significant baseball聽ticket聽in the world."
