Game-worn Kris Bryant jersey breaks auction price record

Kris Bryant had a pretty amazing rookie year. The All-Star is the likely Rookie of the Year winner and set a high bar for the rest of his career. In doing so, he also won over hordes of fans, some of which are willing to prove it with quite a bit of money.

In a recent auction, the jersey Bryant wore in the first two NLDS games against the Cardinals went for an astounding $15,512.76. It was the highest priced sale of any piece of Cubs memorabilia since the team launched their Cubs Authentics website in 2012.

Bryant’s jersey wasn’t the only high-priced item. A Kyle Schwarber NLDS jersey went for $14,510, and Addison Russell’s jersey went for $1,828. Even jerseys from Kyle Hendricks and Javier Baez sold for over $800.

From Crain’s Chicago:

The jersey prices may have broken the Cubs in-house record, but they are far from the highest priced piece of sports memorabilia. Various Babe Ruth items have gone for more than $1 million. Ruth’s “called shot” jersey, from the Yankees World Series against the Cubs, was sold for $940,000 in 2005.

An Ernie Banks game-worn jersey sold in August through an auction not affiliated with the Cubs for $137,865.

The money raised in the selling of Bryant, Schwarber and the rest of the Cubs jerseys benefit Chicago Cubs Charities. Another auction has already opened on the website. A game-worn Jake Arrieta jersey is going for more then $3,000 and a Jorge Soler jersey for more than $1,000. A game-used Kris Bryant bat has a bid of $1490.