The Seattle Mariners are paying reliever Jeff Nelson $10.65 million over three years for his arm. The eBay bidding reached $23,600 for his bone chips–until the auction was stopped.
The online company stopped the auction Wednesday, saying it doesn’t allow the sale of body parts. The site was up for about 24 hours.
Nelson, 35, had surgery Friday to remove bone chips from the elbow of his pitching arm.
“I brought them around the clubhouse with me on Saturday, and I said that I should put them on eBay and all the guys started laughing,” Nelson told ESPN.com.
A local radio show host told him the same thing “so we decided to do it,” Nelson said.
“It was unbelievable how high it got,” Nelson said.
Say what?
`I lived up in Chicago for eight years, and the people up there hate him.’
–Former-Bears-now-Redskins quarterback Shane Matthews on Washington coach Steve Spurrier
