The first base from Derek Jeter’s final career hit in 2014 at Fenway Park sold for more than $25,000 at Grey Flannel Auctions Sunday, dubbed “the last base Jeter ever touched” by the auction house. That's around a 50 percent haircut from the last sale of the base back in 2014.
In Jeter's final game of his career, the Yankees legend hit an RBI single in the third inning against the Red Sox. The 40-year-old future Hall of Fame shortstop then removed himself from the game, having recorded the 3,465th hit of his career — good enough for sixth all time.
Less than three months later, the base from that last hit was at MLB Auctions for $50,050.
Now, it has surfaced for sale once more, accompanied by an MLB hologram and serial number tying it to that final hit.
In 2021, the home plate from the original Yankee Stadium, said to be present on the field on Opening Day in 1923 to 1974, sold for more than $300,000 at SCP Auctions.
Will Stern is a reporter and editor for cllct.