The Dodgers donate memorabilia from their World Series win over the Yankees to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, including Freddie Freeman’s cleats.
The most valuable piece of memorabilia from the Dodgers’ World Series championship run is easily identified. It’s the baseball struck by Freddie Freeman that landed in the right-field pavilion in the 10th inning of Game 1, the first walk-off grand slam in fall classic history.
Auction experts estimate it would fetch more than $2 million, the value burnished by the Dodgers winning the five-game series over the New York Yankees and Freeman being named the most valuable player. The ball was scooped up by a 10-year-old diehard Dodgers fan, and he’s been floating on cloud nine ever since.
Yet many other items also have value, and there is no shortage of fans that would love nothing more than to own something authentic to forever remind them of the Dodgers’ first full-season championship since 1988.
But first, the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum got a haul, coming away with enough Dodgers artifacts to outfit what promises to be a cool display in Cooperstown.
