An online auction of a 680-item collection of Tiger Stadium memorabilia, including World Series banners and the home dugout urinal, is scheduled to run through mid-October.

The auction opened Sunday morning, organizers said, but Internet traffic to the site was so heavy that some potential bidders couldn’t access the auction portion of the Web site for part of the morning.

People still were able to buy seats from the stadium on the Web site, and full access was soon restored, said Bob Rossbach, a media contact for St. Louis-based Schneider Industries, which is handling the memorabilia sale for the city of Detroit.

Posted: 09|17|07 at 2:00 pm. Filed under: US News.