Representatives from Steiner Sports, which will conduct the auction, were on hand at the museum but declined to speculate on how high the bidding might go (a Babe Ruth uniform sold for $4.4 million in May, although it's unlikely that Larsen's uniform will approach that amount).
We already know the power of little girls in uniforms selling us cookies, image when they start selling us other things, or even better inventing them.
(I know from fact that Medvedev has fetish for Oreos and in certain depressive months even imports those cookies that the chubby girls in uniforms sell).
The discs of uniform size sell for $36 apiece.
"What the uniform actually sells for is not that important to me; whatever happens, happens.
The best comparable piece, Imler said, was Berra's perfect-game uniform, which sold at auction for $565,000.
Scott Stimell, who owns a Long Island memorabilia business called Cardboard Memories, said he expected the uniform to sell for "north of $500,000".
Coach Tom Landry hated the pressure that went along with that nickname, but the national fan base and the futuristic, grimly cold silver-and-blue uniform motif sold Cowboys gear, and still does, while infuriating fans of other teams.
One final tidbit: The fact that Thomson even had the uniform to sell at all was due to the fact that Horace Stoneham, who owned the Giants from 1936 to 1976, was a cheapskate.
In fairness to the president, it could be argued that he doesn't actually believe this claptrap but -- like so many of his predecessors -- simply dons a star-spangled uniform to sell his foreign policy to the American public.
