Teams negotiate to get back homerun balls

RichardSimon · #1 06-17-2012, 09:31 AM

btw - the Mets REPRINTED all the tickets to that Santana no hit game and are selling them for $50 apiece. Yeah, fifty bucks for a repro.
Pretty cheezy in my mind and I am a Mets fan.
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-bi...9106--mlb.html

mcgwirecom · #2 06-17-2012, 10:48 AM

I heard about that. I'd like to see one of the reprints. In the past when a team reprinted a significant ticket they would often use the box office variety. And the would also leave on the code that tells when it was purchased so you could tell it was an "after the fact" type reprint. My favorite was Gaylord Perry's 300th win ticket. The Mariners actually printed "Gaylord Perry's 300th Win" right on the ticket! And some people think it's legit! But other teams like the Cardinals printed exact copies of the season holders tickets for McGwire's 62nd, 70th and 500th HRs. There is no way to tell the difference, so technically you would think a full box office ticket should be worth more. But they aren't, people still like the season style best.

Brendan · #3 06-17-2012, 10:57 PM

I've been to both Five Guys and In-N-Out. I have to say to I feel pretty "meh" on both of them. A local burger joint absolutely trumps Five Guys and In-N-Out in my opinion.

I've always wondered if anything more would come out of it for the guy who gave back the Jeter ball. Would some rich New York City company give him a high-paying job? It is certainly a possibility, but I know I wouldn't give the guy a job. Why would you want to hire someone stupid enough to give back a six figure ball for a couple of tickets?

Gary Dunaier · #4 06-18-2012, 10:14 PM

Unfortunately, it seems the reprints of the Santana tickets will not be identified as such. I'm a Mets season ticket holder (which means I'll be getting the reprints of the tickets for my seats free) and I asked my representative about this, and she e-mailed back "To my knowledge I do not believe there is any indication that they were reprinted and there is no difference from the originals."

Scott Garner · #5 06-18-2012, 10:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gary Dunaier

Unfortunately, it seems the reprints of the Santana tickets will not be identified as such. I'm a Mets season ticket holder (which means I'll be getting the reprints of the tickets for my seats free) and I asked my representative about this, and she e-mailed back "To my knowledge I do not believe there is any indication that they were reprinted and there is no difference from the originals."

Nice! Expect that the value of these tickets will get much lower as soon as the ticket collector crowd figures this out.

murphusa · #6 06-19-2012, 08:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Scott Garner

Nice! Expect that the value of these tickets will get much lower as soon as the ticket collector crowd figures this out.

most of the tickets sold after the fact on games like Hallidays perfect game etc had the print date on them. So for Hallidays Perfect game the print date was 2 days after the game date.

Guessing the same will be true on the Mets ticket

Gary Dunaier · #7 06-19-2012, 11:00 PM

Here's a "souvenir" Halladay ticket I bought after the fact...

(Barcode digitally removed from image.)

This is a "Ticketmaster" style ticket. "Ticketmaster" and "box office" tickets have the date of printing in the lower left corner, and as murphusa correctly points out in this case "A10JUN0," shows that this ticket was printed after the date of the event.

The Mets will reprint the Santana no-hitter tickets on "season ticket" stock. This is the season ticket for that game...

(Seat number, account number and barcode digitally removed from image.)

As you can see, there's no place where the date of printing is indicated. So, barring some deliberate subtle printing variation, those of us who have the season tickets - and especially those who got caught up in the heat of the moment and paid as much as $500 for one - are, at least from a collecting standpoint, screwed.

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