Gracie's letter, believed to be the only one he wrote aboard the Titanic, was purchased by a private collector from the United States for five times the initial estimate price of 60,000 after going under the hammer at Henry Aldridge & Son auction house.
Wojnarowski, the basketball news-breaker who recently retired from ESPN, is auctioning his castoff items to benefit the men's basketball program at St. Bonaventure University.