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Posted By: jay behrens

another key to the silly price is that it is a charity auction, which means it's a big, fat tax write off for the winner. Remove the ability to take the tax deduction and watch the price plummet. Kind of like the Seeing the Phillies spring training jerseys auctioned at Willow Grove in 1982 for charity. Schmidt, Rose and Carlton all went for $5k plus if I remember correctly.