{"id":5781,"date":"2015-02-22T06:46:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-22T06:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sealnews.co.uk\/?p=5781"},"modified":"2023-02-22T07:51:37","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T07:51:37","slug":"ali-liston-gloves-shoeless-joe-photo-fetch-1-1m-in-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sealnews.co.uk\/?p=5781","title":{"rendered":"Ali, Liston gloves, Shoeless Joe photo fetch $1.1M in NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sealnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/themes\/newsmag\/assets\/images\/picture_placeholder_list.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.sealnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/0222145035.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"blazy wp-image-5786\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"619\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sealnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/0222145035.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5786\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sealnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/0222145035.png 619w, https:\/\/www.sealnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/0222145035-248x300.png 248w, https:\/\/www.sealnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/0222145035-96x116.png 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 619px) 100vw, 619px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">In this May 25, 1965 file photo, challenger Sonny Liston, right, lands a body blow to heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali in Lewiston, Maine.&nbsp;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NEW YORK&nbsp;&#8211; The gloves worn by Muhammad Ali and Sonny Liston during their infamous 1965 rematch and a rare century-old signed photo of Shoeless Joe Jackson fetched over $1.1 million total at an auction Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both pairs of gloves from the May 25, 1965, bout in Lewiston, Maine&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;won by Ali with a first-round knockout from what some saw as a &#8220;phantom punch&#8221;&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;were seized by George Russo, the boxing commissioner for Maine. The gloves remained in the Russo family until a California collector purchased them several years ago before putting them up for auction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dallas-based Heritage Auctions, which handled the sale in New York City, said the gloves were purchased for $956,000 by a buyer who wished to remain anonymous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The photo of Jackson, who is mostly remembered for being banned from baseball for his role in the 1919 World Series scandal and later being depicted in the movie &#8220;Field of Dreams,&#8221; brought in $179,000. It sold to an anonymous collector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jackson was illiterate and rarely signed anything but paychecks and legal documents, making his autograph among the rarest in sports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Footage of the Ali-Liston fight does not make it clear whether Ali&#8217;s quick right hand actually connected, and many fans booed. Even the most famous photos of the fight show an enraged Ali standing over Liston as he lay on the canvas; Ali is gesturing and yelling at Liston to get up and fight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Lewiston rematch was the first bout in which Ali stepped into the ring as Muhammad Ali after converting to Islam. He was still Cassius Clay a year earlier when he won the championship from Liston in Miami. His glove from that bout sold last year at Heritage Auctions for $836,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ali signed both pairs of gloves when he came to Lewiston in 1995 to celebrate the fight&#8217;s 30th anniversary. Liston died in 1970.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sealnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/themes\/newsmag\/assets\/images\/picture_placeholder_list.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.sealnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/0222145207.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"blazy wp-image-5784\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"735\" height=\"466\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sealnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/0222145207.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5784\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sealnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/0222145207.png 735w, https:\/\/www.sealnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/0222145207-300x190.png 300w, https:\/\/www.sealnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/0222145207-183x116.png 183w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 735px) 100vw, 735px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The gloves of Sonny Liston, front, and Muhammad Ali, rear, sit on a table, Jan 22. Ali autographed both his gloves and those of Liston several years ago.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How many of Jackson&#8217;s signatures are in existence today isn&#8217;t clear, but most experts agree the number is probably less than 100.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Autograph experts from two different authentication companies closely examined the signature on the photo of Jackson and determined it was the real thing, said Heritage Auctions said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A baseball bearing Jackson&#8217;s shaky signature brought $78,000 in 2011. Even a scrap of paper with his autograph sold for $23,100 nearly 25 years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The photo of Jackson that sold Saturday was unknown in the sports memorabilia world until last year.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sealnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/themes\/newsmag\/assets\/images\/picture_placeholder_list.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.sealnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/5a28ff0da310fcb61f54d553.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"blazy wp-image-5785\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sealnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/5a28ff0da310fcb61f54d553.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5785\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sealnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/5a28ff0da310fcb61f54d553.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.sealnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/5a28ff0da310fcb61f54d553-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.sealnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/5a28ff0da310fcb61f54d553-174x116.jpeg 174w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Boxing gloves worn by Muhammad Ali and Sonny Liston are displayed in New York, Thursday, Feb 19, 2015.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK&nbsp;&#8211; The gloves worn by Muhammad Ali and Sonny Liston during their infamous 1965 rematch and a rare century-old signed photo of Shoeless Joe Jackson fetched over $1.1 million total at an auction Saturday. Both pairs of gloves from the May 25, 1965, bout in Lewiston, Maine&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;won by Ali with a first-round knockout from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5808,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,11,9,4,5,6,8,10,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-block-of-4","category-business","category-culture-sport","category-featured","category-lifestyle","category-media","category-social","category-technology","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sealnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sealnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sealnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sealnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sealnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5781"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sealnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5811,"href":"https:\/\/www.sealnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5781\/revisions\/5811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sealnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sealnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sealnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sealnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}