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The original contract sending Babe Ruth from Red Sox to Yankees up for auction

Lelands (lelands.com) often has auctions with some baseball paraphernalia that nets very high-end bidding and their latest may be the most notable one to date. Probably the most eye-catching item would be the original contract of the Red Sox selling Babe Ruth to the Yankees, which obviously was the impetus for the decades-long "Curse of the Bambino."

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The first two paragraphs of the Babe Ruth sale contract.

The bid as of Tuesday night was $146,410, so that pretty well prices many of us out. The sale ends June 30 at 9 p.