The uniform worn by Hall of Famer Lou Gehrig at Game 2 of the 1939 World Series -- Gehrig's final appearance at Yankee Stadium -- sold for $2.712 million at auction.

Gehrig played for the Yankees from 1923 to 1939, collecting 493 home runs and winning six World Series and two AL MVPs. He was diagnosed with ALS, now commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease, in 1939 and played just eight games that season, but stayed with the team and delivered the Yankees' lineup cards to umpires.

The jersey worn by Lou Gehrig in his final appearance at Yankee Stadium has been sold at an auction held by Christie's in conjunction with Hunt Auctions for $2.712 million. It is the highest amount paid for a piece of Gehrig memorabilia.

A jersey that late New York Yankees legend Lou Gehrig wore during the 1939 World Series could fetch up to $4 million at Christie's on October 22.

A nearly 100-year-old bat that Yankees legend Lou Gehrig used sold for $1,025,000 this past week, according to ESPN's Tom VanHaaren. The bat, which per ESPN, had never been sold at auction before, was purchased by a private buyer after the initial auction.

The jersey worn by baseball Hall of Famer Lou Gehrig in his final home game appearance in 1939 sold for $2.71 million in an auction on Wednesday.

When they tell stories of Monday’s Game 3, it will seem certain that the memories have gone cloudy and the details have been confused. Surely it didn’t all happen on one night, in a single game, in a World Series classic that stretched across two different days in Eastern Standard Time.