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Even as a Yankee fan, I would have asked him to make me an offer. I wouldn't have milked him for every cent but a few autographs and box seats definitely wouldn't have been enough.
Even as a Yankee fan, I would have asked him to make me an offer. I wouldn't have milked him for every cent but a few autographs and box seats definitely wouldn't have been enough.
Good point. Jeter deserves the first offer as long as it was "in the ball park". (pun intended).
By now, Jeter knows the whole story, and by all accounts, Jeter is a decent human being. I would expect him to do the right thing. And I don't see any need for the media to know what that is.
If Jeter wanted the ball back, and didn't get it, it would serve him right for hitting it into the stands in the first place. Personally, I don't see where it makes all that much difference, to have the ball. 3,001 hits is better than 3,000, so save the next one. Which would YOU rather have? The hit, or the ball? Our society takes tokenism way too seriously.
If I had been a ballplayer who got to the majors for a few days, and got one hit, like Tex Aulds or Steve Gibralter or somebody, I wouldn't care if I had the ball or not. I've done a lot of things in my life that I feel were worthwhile accomplishments (nothing like getting a hit in the major leagues, of course), and I have no memorabilia from them.
If not selling it for a quarter of a million, at least get Jeter to pay off his student loan debts... but instead of saying he owed $100,000, try to get a couple more hundred thousand.
But as a Yankee hater, box seats, autographs, etc. not enough for a historic 3,000th hit ball.
I hate the Yankees. I would have thrown it back on the field. Or at least one just like it. Somebody there would have had one.
By the way, did they hologram it, they way they did for those record-breaking homers?
They had all the balls used for Jeter marked.
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