In 1979, our forever President Barack Obama was hitting all the shots at Punahou School in Honolulu, Hawaii. Now, in 2019, there is news that an unidentified collector has officially paid $120,000 to be the new owner of Mr. Obama’s old high school jersey.
What We Know:
- Mr. Obama was not only a member of the Punahou varsity boys basketball team but, he also won 44 games in this jersey and in 1979, they became Hawaii State Champions.
- Earlier this summer, Mr. Obama’s jersey was selling for $25K before being raised to almost five times the original price.
- Peter Noble, an old classmate of Mr. Obama, originally held on to the jersey before auctioning it. “What had been for decades a personal memento of my own childhood has been transformed into a monumental artifact of American history,” Noble expressed to People via a letter. “It deserves a stage much larger than my closet.”
- A portion of the jersey’s earnings will be donated to Punahou.
Now, all we need is for one of our beloved, talented rappers to sport the jersey in their new video.
