The 8 best sports items that sold at Russell Crowe’s stupendous divorce auction

Russell Crowe is a beautifully eccentric dude, and nothing typified this better than an auction he held in Sydney over the weekend titled The Art of Divorce.

Crowe decided to jettison his belongings on the anniversary of his wedding, which is also his birthday. He told local news in Australia he just didn’t need so much stuff, so he teamed up with Sotheby’s to sell of his possessions. There’s a lot of art work and personal effects, but also a staggering amount of sports memorabilia — which come from movies he’s worked on, as well as personal interests.

These are the best sports items that sold, ranked purely on my personal enjoyment.

I really enjoy that an appraiser looked at this and said “$500-600,” and some random person decided that proximity to Crowe’s junk added $8,000 onto the price.

Jonah Lomu is one of the greatest athletes of all time, in any sport. He was rugby’s Bo Jackson. A mountain of a man who reached mythic status thanks to his abilities. His signed jersey sold for the same price as a used ball holster.

These are a steal at $3,000 cheaper than the leather support for Russell’s lads.

So here’s where stuff gets weird. Obviously proximity to Crowe was a reason for a big sale, but here’s an item that is imminently usable, was worn in a movie, and was close to Crowe’s head — and yet it only got $854. Using this logic we can say that Crowe’s junk is 10-times more valuable than his face. I wonder how that feels if you’re Crowe?

I really like the specificity to have two volumes of Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack but only from 1930 and 1948. It also looks like he put tags on the pages as if he was really studying this stuff.

I’m highlighting this for two key reasons:

This is going to be an aside, so bear with me. Boon is an underrated sporting figure who time has unfairly forgotten and he’s never gotten his due in the U.S. If Boon was playing sports now we’d love him, because was the Australian proto-Bartolo Colon.

Boon had sports’ most glorious mustache, and the dude just walloped the ball. My grandma always had a crush on him, which as a child felt kinda weird — but now I get it.

You can tell how not into this he was, just from the look on the face.

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