Drysdale’s Memorabilia Fetches Pretty Penny

Once you get to the world of professional sport it normally ends in a story of tragedy having to see off your memorabilia to those who pay the most.

Such is the case with Don Drysdale who played as a right-handed pitcher for the LA Dodgers with his debut in MLB April 17^th 1956 until his last appearance August 5^th, 1969.

The 1963 World Series Championship Ring of Don Drysdale recently sold for $110,111 in an auction of the late Hall of Fame pitchers memorabilia.

It was purchased by an anonymous buyer in a recent sale.

Drysdale’s 1962 Cy Young Award sold for $100,100, while the Championship ring went for $90,999.

The game-worn rookie uniform managed to tally up $82,727.

Other items reaped the highest prices was four of Drysdale’s game-worn Dodgers uniforms, including two that he wore during the 1965 World Series.

They sold for prices ranging from $25,686 to $41,372, while his 1956 Brooklyn Dodgers NL championship ring went for $25,726, and his “game-used” fielder’s glove from the 1960s sold for $30,343.

His impressive 14 year career ended in 1969 at the age of 32 and following his playing days, he stayed involved in the game as a broadcaster for the White Sox, Rangers, Expos, Angels and Dodgers.

His wife (Ann Meyers) was elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1993 and ironically it is the only marriage between Hall of Famers from any of the four major American sports- football, hockey, basketball and baseball.

Ann is a retired Basketball player who competed in the Olympic Games as well as International tournaments.

She was the first woman to be signed to a four-year athletic scholarship for college, at UCLA.

In addition she was also the only woman to sign a contract with a National Basketball Association team, the Indiana Pacers (1979) until the Washington Wizards signed ten-year old Amaris Jackson, who suffers from kidney cancer, to a one-day contract on April 15, 2014.