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Red Sox 'Curse' Jersey Fetches $175,100 On eBay

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Apr 24, 2008 9:35 am US/Pacific

Red Sox 'Curse' Jersey Fetches $175,100 On eBay

BOSTON (CBS) ― The online auction of the tattered David Ortiz jersey that was buried in the new Yankee Stadium has ended.

The final bid was $175,100 from "2004carman."  The winner has not been identified yet.

The auction began last Thursday on eBay and ended at 12:30 p.m. Thursday. The starting bid was $500.

All proceeds will go to the Jimmy Fund, the children's cancer charity affiliated with Boston's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Construction worker and Red Sox fan Gino Castignoli buried the shirt under two feet of cement during the construction of the new stadium hoping to curse the Yankees. When the Yankees found out about it, they dug it up earlier this month.

Yankee President Randy Levine had the shirt cleaned up and sent to the Jimmy Fund.

The Yankees said it cost about $30,000 to dig up the jersey.

(© 2009 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press contributed to this report.)

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