Aaron Judge MLB Debut jersey auctions for 157K

Over the past year, Aaron Judge has quickly become one of the most popular players in all of baseball. A recent Steiner Sports auction showed how much the 25-year-old is taking the sport of baseball by storm.

Aaron Judge's MLB debut jersey sells for $157,366! https://t.co/sAwXw8RJrF pic.twitter.com/dgelHOLvgp

— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) July 30, 2017

The jersey that Judge wore during his Major League debut sold for $157,366. According to Darren Rovell of ESPN, the amount is the most that anyone has paid for a jersey of any of the four leading United States sports since 2002. Judge's debut was definitely one to remember. On August 13, 2016, Judge blasted a home run off Tampa Bay's Matt Andriese. The home run hit of tinted glass facing the batter's eye in straightaway centerfield, just above the illustrious Monument Park. https://mediadownloads.mlb.com/mlbam/mp4/2016/08/14/1045335183/1471136709636/asset_1800K.mp4 To compare to other auctioned items, here are the prices that some other valuable items recently sold for: Mickey Mantle's 1957 All-Star game bat- $135,332 Stephen Curry's NBA Finals Game 3 jersey- $135,060 Signed Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig ball- $33,000 To go along with his debut jersey, other items have recently been a hot topic as well. The jersey he wore when he hit his first grand slam on May 28 sold for $45,578, and a autographed rookie card recently sold for $14,000 on eBay. Still considered a rookie by Major League standards, Judge is considered the front-runner for the American League Rookie of the Year Award. The 25-year-old has a slash line of .302/.426/.631 in 100 games. With his 33 home runs, Judge has already broken Joe DiMaggio's club record for home runs by a rookie in a single season. If he continues at this pace, expect more of his game-used items to be valuable collectible items down the road.