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Going once, going twice: Ruth’s glove, Hendrix’s cowboy hat

BIDDEFORD, Maine – A baseball glove belonging to hard-swinging Babe Ruth fetched $118,000 at auction Saturday, the top item from a collection of memorabilia that included Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse ears and John Wayne’s cowboy hat, boots and spurs.

The price paid for the left-handed glove showed once again that America’s pastime resonates with collectors, said Troy Thibodeau from Saco River Auction.

A face mask and catcher’s mitt belonging to Hall of Famer Roy Campanella sold for $42,000. Other top items were a hat and harmonica from Janis Joplin that went for $33,000 and Jimi Hendrix’s leather cowboy hat that netted $22,000.

All told, the auction of items that once belonged to the late New York TV talk show host Joe Franklin brought in $500,000, Thibodeau said.

The items included leather jackets belonging to Steve McQueen and Marlon Brando, Laurel and Hardy’s boxing gloves, and hats from the likes of Marilyn Monroe, Lucille Ball, Frank Sinatra, and Johnny Carson. They were put up for bid by an anonymous collector who spent years purchasing items from the collection of Franklin, Thibodeau said.

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