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Curt Schilling's bloody sock sells for $92,613 at auction

  • Curt Schilling put the osck up for auction when his Rhode Island-based video game company wet bankrupt
  • Schilling wore the sock during the 2004 World Series as the Red Sox won their first championship in 86 years
  • Mike Eruzione%2C of the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team%2C also had several items up for bids in the auction



Schilling had loaned his sock to the National Baseball Hall of Fame Museum, but when his Rhode Island-based video game company 38 Studios went bankrupt, he decided to sell the sock that was bloodied as he pitched on an injured ankle.


An anonymous bidder submitted the winning bid.



The right-hander made $114 million over an 18-year career with Baltimore, Houston, Philadelphia, Arizona and Boston, but defaulted on loan payments to the state of Rhode Island.




Schilling's sock was the second notable piece of Red Sox memorabilia to be auctioned off in the last year. The ball that went through Bill Buckner's legs in Game 6 of the 1986 World Series was projected to sell for $100,000, but fetched $418,000.

The other marquee part of the auction was several 1980 Winter Olympic items from Mike Eruzione, who scored the game-winning goal for the U.S. hockey team to win the "Miracle on Ice" against Russia 33 years ago Friday. The team won the gold medal by beating Finland.

He was selling nearly everything except for his actual gold medal.


The items were sitting in Eruzione's hockey bag for most of the last 33 years, but his stick went for $262,900, while his jerseys went for $657,250 and $286,800 respectively.




Other noteworthy New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox items included a $1,150 signing bonus endorsed by a 17-year-old Mickey Mantle that sold for $286,800 and two checks related to the purchase of Babe Ruth, which went for $95,600.