March 2014 Pick Ups

[I Only Smoke 4 the Cards]

Originally Posted by yanks12025

I don't think he sold it. I bought it off a collector over on GUU. I'm guessing the twins sold the bat at one time and the baseball was probably sold by the tigers because they were playing the tigers.

Damn. That seems like an item that the player should own.

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by I Only Smoke 4 the Cards

Damn. That seems like an item that the player should own.

Sounds like a good thread opportunity. I'm sure we would get to hear the story about Hank Aaron getting tricked into signing a ball that he probably would have 'retrieved' from the owner if he had known what it was.

I heard a radio talk-show host ask a football player the other day if he "kept the ball" (referring to a touchdown ball), and the player responded that he tossed it aside - in the moment, he hadn't thought to keep it. Equipment managers normally grab such items, tag them and save them on the sidelines, but who knows what ball actually gets given to the player;e.g-Dwight Clarke's 'the catch'.