DiMaggio

To say Grey Flannel’s Dec. 18 auction was a nail bitter, is like saying Babe Ruth was simply a ball player. In both cases the truth is far more robust, as demonstrated by the last 24 hours of the auction, when fiercely competitive bidding drove the price for a cap worn by Ruth during the 1934 US All-Star Tour of Japan to $303,277 before the gavel fell.