Clemente Family Upset About Auction (ghoul alert)

[DemBeans]

Roberto Clemente's family is upset that pieces of the plane he died in are being auctioned off, according to The New York Times. Lelands auction house is selling a light metal piece of the airplane, measuring 19 by 14 inches at its largest point, the paper report on its Web site Saturday night. That section has a minimum auction price of $1,500

A gray steel propeller, 14 by 79 inches, has a minimum price of $1,000.

The high bid for the first piece is $1,650 and the high for the second is $1,210. The auction, which includes 28 Clemente-related items, is to end June 24.

"It's disgusting," Roberto Clemente Jr. was quoted as saying. "It's a shame that something so sacred to my family would go on the market like this. It's ridiculous. It has nothing to do with baseball. He's a human being. He lost his life. There's nothing funny about that."

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/06/04/sports/s212251D77.DTL

[Bunny]

1. I didn't realize they had found the plane.

Roberto's body was never found, to my knowledge. Yes, it's quite ghoulish, isn't it?

[geomon666]

2. Everything is for sale these days.

I'm sure they'd sell his body if they could.