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Strasburg debut ball up for auction - $5,000 so far

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I'll guess that it goes for $8,200.

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  • stevekstevek Posts: 30,319 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I still can't believe that guy threw back that home run ball.
  • stevekstevek Posts: 30,319 ✭✭✭✭✭


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    I'll guess that it goes for $8,200. >>



    Wonder how many of these there are? Likely at least 10 or 20 - still a very cool item.
  • jeffcbayjeffcbay Posts: 8,951 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I still can't believe that guy threw back that home run ball. >>



    I thought the same thing when he threw it. I'm sure one of the players kept it though.
  • stevekstevek Posts: 30,319 ✭✭✭✭✭


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    << <i>I still can't believe that guy threw back that home run ball. >>



    I thought the same thing when he threw it. I'm sure one of the players kept it though. >>



    First HR hit off Strasburg - that could one day be a 50K or 100K ball in my opinion, depending on how his career goes...that's decent money even to a player.
  • jeffcbayjeffcbay Posts: 8,951 ✭✭✭✭
    Not only did that guy toss a ball that potentially could be worth tens of thousands of dollars, but he very likely got kicked out of Strasburg's first game! lol
  • MorgothMorgoth Posts: 3,950 ✭✭✭
    alot of folks will be jumping off cliffs when Stras has his first tommy john surgery.

    Remember that guy who bought the first PSA 10 McGwire RC? Ouch I think he got maybe 1/100th what he paid back out of it.
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  • mlbfan2mlbfan2 Posts: 3,115 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Not only did that guy toss a ball that potentially could be worth tens of thousands of dollars, but he very likely got kicked out of Strasburg's first game! lol >>



    He didn't. He was going to be kicked out, but the crowd convinced security to let him stay.
  • jeffcbayjeffcbay Posts: 8,951 ✭✭✭✭
    At a game in the "Murder Capital", I probably would have let him stay too.
  • stownstown Posts: 11,321 ✭✭✭


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    I'll guess that it goes for $8,200. >>



    Wonder how many of these there are? Likely at least 10 or 20 - still a very cool item. >>



    Waaaaaaay more than 10 or 20. Per wiki:



    << <i>According to the MLB: "It says between five and six dozen baseballs are used during each baseball game, as many as 72 balls." >>



    Though I am surprised they aren't advertising a charity, since it's put on by MLB. Shame on them.

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  • Bigjohn69Bigjohn69 Posts: 737


    << <i>alot of folks will be jumping off cliffs when Stras has his first tommy john surgery.

    Remember that guy who bought the first PSA 10 McGwire RC? Ouch I think he got maybe 1/100th what he paid back out of it. >>


    you can go on overstock.com and pick up the usa mcgwire, plus other signed stuff, no strasburgs yet though, lol,, bj
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  • italianstallionyankeesitalianstallionyankees Posts: 541


    << <i>alot of folks will be jumping off cliffs when Stras has his first tommy john surgery.

    Remember that guy who bought the first PSA 10 McGwire RC? Ouch I think he got maybe 1/100th what he paid back out of it. >>



    I thought it was the guy who bought the first Bgs 9.5 McGwire He paid what $20,000 + for it??
    Sold for $400 or so? I may be off several hundred or so??

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  • mlbfan2mlbfan2 Posts: 3,115 ✭✭✭
    I was only off by $12,000. image It sold for $20,010.00.
  • DboneesqDboneesq Posts: 18,219 ✭✭


    << <i>I was only off by $12,000. image It sold for $20,010.00. >>


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  • byronscott4everbyronscott4ever Posts: 932 ✭✭✭
    I read somewhere that it appears to be Keith Olbermann who bought this ball.
  • mlbfan2mlbfan2 Posts: 3,115 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I read somewhere that it appears to be Keith Olbermann who bought this ball. >>



    Yeah, the winner was Merkle923, and that's apparently Olbermann, based on this...
    link.
  • TNP777TNP777 Posts: 5,710 ✭✭✭
    yeah, that's KO's handle

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