The mask U.S. hockey goalie Jim Craig wore during the “Miracle on Ice” run at the 1980 Olympics sold at auction for $137,849.16, Yahoo Sports reported.
Meanwhile, bidding reached more $611,000 for Craig’s gold medal, but that item did not sell after a month-long auction at Leland’s because it failed to meet its reserve price.
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Craig last summer tried unsuccessfully to sell a 19-piece lot of memorabilia for $5.7 million. In May, he put 17 items up for sale with the Long Island-based auction house. Thirteen items sold, including a game-used goalie stick from the 1980 Lake Placid Games for $60,653.65 and his Olympic jacket for $11,516.78.
In addition to the gold medal, the jersey Craig wore in the USA’s wins over the Soviet Union and Finland, as well as the American flag he was adorned with after the team won gold, did not meet reserve prices.
Craig’s motivation to sell the items is selfless — he is trying to take care of his two children and their future kids.
“It’s really complicated to try and really do that when you’re being really fiscally responsible and you put on that burden, and you don’t want to have anything of that type of value to split families,” Craig told Yahoo Sports last month. “I really don’t think I wanted or my wife wanted any of the kids to have that type of pressure.”