The sports memorabilia space is a bizarre world where everything can be for sale and value feels entirely subjective. Someone paid nearly $11,000 for David Ortiz’s championship-winning beard hair in 2013. (And apparently regretted it, because it went unbid on in an attempted 2017 resale.) His tattered jersey yanked from new Yankee Stadium’s foundation scored $175,100 for the Jimmy Fund and ended up at a Ford dealership in Mendon. A couple years ago, a podiatry student dropped $1,500 on a used Robert Griffin III ankle cast.
Amidst all that, an outlet mall outside Omaha, Neb.