See that ugly hunk of cloth? That’s the David Ortiz jersey that was buried by a construction worker in the new Yankee Stadium. And now? It’s worth $175,100 for charity. From the AP:

The Boston Red Sox jersey secretly buried under the new Yankee Stadium in an attempt to “curse” the Yankees sold for $175,100 in a charity auction.

The Jimmy Fund, a cancer charity, didn’t immediately reveal the name of the winning bidder after the week-long eBay auction closed at 12:30 p.m. Thursday.

The bid was the highest of 282 for the battered David Ortiz jersey, which the Yankees jackhammered out from under two feet of concrete earlier this month.

We’re all for the Jimmy Fund getting a big lift, but we really have to wonder who would pay that much for a unique but rather marginal piece of history.

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