Most Expensive Sports Memorabilia Sold at Auction (All Time)
Source:
Wikipedia
Key Findings
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Michael Jordan 1998 Finals Jersey leads in Auction Price (Million USD) with 10.10 in 2023.
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2022 recorded the highest combined total across all categories.
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Gap in 2023: Michael Jordan 1998 Finals Jersey is 101× larger than Roger Federer 2006 Wimbledon Racket.
About This Dataset
Most Expensive Sports Memorabilia Sold at Auction (All Time)
Sports memorabilia items ranked by hammer price at public auction in millions of USD. Babe Ruth's 1920 New York Yankees jersey sold for $5.64 million at Hunt Auctions in 2019 — the most expensive piece of sports memorabilia ever sold at the time, reflecting Ruth's towering status as perhaps the most historically significant figure in American sports and the scarcity of authenticated material from his early Yankees career.
Analysis
Michael Jordan 1998 Finals Jersey heads the table on 10.1, ahead of Diego Maradona 1986 WC Hand of God Jersey (9.30) and Babe Ruth 1920 Yankees Jersey (5.64) in Auction Price (Million USD) in 2023. 10 separates the highest figure (10.1) from the lowest (0.10). First and second are separated by 0.80, so the leader sits inside the field rather than apart from it. Only 3 of the 8 reach even half the leader's figure (5.05 or more).
Data Insights
Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart
Methodology & source
- Data source
- Wikipedia
- Coverage
- 8 entities · 2015–2023 (7 years) · 8 observations
- Measure
- Auction Price (Million USD)
- Last updated
- 6 September 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
How the figures are calculated
- Values use the measure and unit named on this page. Consult the dataset description and cited source for coverage, definitions and any unit conversions. Displayed values may be rounded for readability.
- Missing years are left empty rather than estimated — no interpolation, no carrying a previous year forward.
- Change is measured between the first and last year in which an entity actually reported a value, so a series that starts late is not penalised for the years before it existed.
- The compound annual rate is (last ÷ first)^(1 ÷ years) − 1, using those same two reported years.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value in 2023.
- An entity that reported nothing in the latest year is still listed — it follows the ranked entities in the table rather than being dropped.
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