Then a ball sold at Sotheby 's Barry Halper sale in September for nearly fifty thousand .
That set the table for us to get almost sixty thousand last November and more than sixty thousand for our Ruth and Gehrig ball .
Then a ball sold at Sotheby 's Barry Halper sale in September for nearly fifty thousand , and that set the table for us to get almost sixty thousand last November and more than sixty thousand for our Ruth and Gehrig ball .