A medal won by Rangers legend Jim Baxter is expected to fetch up to £5000 at auction next month.
The nine-carat gold gong was given to the player, nicknamed “Slim Jim”, following the Light Blues’ 2-0 Scottish League Cup final win over Kilmarnock in front of 82,063 fans at Hampden Park in October 1960. Baxter had signed for the Ibrox club from Raith Rovers in June of that year and it was his first senior honour.
The historic piece of football memorabilia will go under the hammer at a special McTear’s auction – More Than A Game: Sporting Medals & Shirts – in Glasgow on October 14. The medal is being sold by Rangers fan Douglas Gray, who was a page boy when Baxter married hairdresser Jean Ferguson in Coatbridge in 1965.
