I have a few collectibles that I can't let depart, even if I wanted to.
Here is one that I will bring out as a good-luck piece for the upcoming Astros-Yankees playoff series - it's the home plate from the opening series between Houston and New York in 2014 on April 1-3. Houston took two out of three, Nolan throwing out the first pitch (which did not come close to crossing this plate
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), it was Derek Jeter's last opening day and the beginning of Jose Altuve's break-out season. Runs scored by Ichiro, Jeter and Altuve.
It's heavy as heck. When I bought it from MLB back in 2014, I was very curious how they would ship it. It arrived just sitting in the bottom of a massive box - couldn't have flopped around if it wanted to. I decided immediately not to continue collecting home plates.