Would You Sell It or Give It Back?

[Whirlaway]

Jeeter's 3,000 hit baseball was worth about $400,000 to the guy who retrieved it. What did he do? He gave it back to Jeeter for some free tickets and signed bats !

What would you have done?

I would have sold it back to the Yankees; afterall they have no qualms ripping baseball fans off. Let the Yankees give it to Jeeters - at their expense.

[bluffcityguy]

Me? "Or something else": donate it to Cooperstown (or at least give Cooperstown right of first refusal, but since Jeter is the only Yankee to reach 3K hits--yeah, shocked the hell out of me, too--I doubt they'd turn it down, though).

The official story is that the guy gave it to Jeter, and in gratitude the Yanks gave him a whole bunch of swag. A buddy of mine makes a very persuasive argument that the Yankees probably put a good deal of pressure on him to give it up. Whatever; he isn't doing badly by it.

Cheers,

bcg

[DragonTongue]

I applaud the fan for giving it back... and I think it goes to show a lot of class that he didn't try to extort the situation. That's not me though... I probably would have shopped around for the best deal!

[Guest050715-1]

If the hit isin another team's ballpark, isn't the fan that caught the ball supposed to throw it back? It's what I'd have done; it's tradition even so I congratulate Jetter on his accomplishment.