Auction of Vin Scully’s sports memorabilia tops $2 million in sales

Items from the personal collection of Hall of Fame broadcaster Vin Scully sold at auction for over $2 million, including World Series rings from the Dodgers’ championships in 1955 and 1988.

Each ring sold for $188,000 during online bidding that ended Wednesday. Another item that sold for six figures was a Dodgers Centennial limited edition serigraph by LeRoy Neiman that went for $105,750.

Scully’s ring from the 1981 World Series went for $83,425; his ring from the 1963 World Series sold for $76,375.

His personal scorebook from his final season behind the mic for the Dodgers in 2016 sold for $82,250. A World Series trophy presented to Scully in 1981 sold for $70,500; a similar trophy from the 1988 World Series drew a winning bid of $64,625. An autograph that Scully obtained in person from Babe Ruth went for $18,800. A baseball signed by President Ronald Reagan for Scully sold for $11,750.

Scully and his wife, Sandra, plan to use some of the auction proceeds to help their five children, 16 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren with expenses that include parochial school tuition. The rest of the proceeds will be donated to UCLA for neuromuscular research. Scully said his wife suffers from a condition related to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, the incurable disease that forced Yankees great Lou Gehrig to retire at 36.