In a handful of years when Arenado retires, a signed bat or ball could be worth a bit, especially if he ends up in the hall of fame.
Unless the ball is worth a ton of money like Judge’s, I don’t see why this isn’t the norm. Good story.
Seems like a normal trade would be the ball for a handshake from the player and a signed bat. Nice guy to give it up for nothing.
As someone who grew up in Wisconsin I would do the exact same thing. However I can assure you many would not, just look on ebay and see all the Giannis Jersey’s on sale after the give away Saturday.
Honestly I love a feel good story but with players clamoring for multi-100 million dollar salaries I’m really not crying when someone wants to get paid for handing back a baseball that’s important to one of the top tier players.
Same market effects at work. Players and owner exploit it for outrageous salaries and taxpayer funded stadiums so I’m not going to get in a twist when a fan wants something in return.
Nolan makes $32M per year, the $10k someone else asked for is 1/3 of 1%. That’s around $25 for an average non-baseball player person’s salary.
No thank you on the cardinals merchandise. I’d rather have nothing
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Where did he hit 250?
The Milwaukee fan fumbled the bag
In a handful of years when Arenado retires, a signed bat or ball could be worth a bit, especially if he ends up in the hall of fame.
Unless the ball is worth a ton of money like Judge’s, I don’t see why this isn’t the norm. Good story.
Seems like a normal trade would be the ball for a handshake from the player and a signed bat.
Nice guy to give it up for nothing.
As someone who grew up in Wisconsin I would do the exact same thing. However I can assure you many would not, just look on ebay and see all the Giannis Jersey’s on sale after the give away Saturday.
Honestly I love a feel good story but with players clamoring for multi-100 million dollar salaries I’m really not crying when someone wants to get paid for handing back a baseball that’s important to one of the top tier players.
Same market effects at work. Players and owner exploit it for outrageous salaries and taxpayer funded stadiums so I’m not going to get in a twist when a fan wants something in return.
Nolan makes $32M per year, the $10k someone else asked for is 1/3 of 1%. That’s around $25 for an average non-baseball player person’s salary.
No thank you on the cardinals merchandise. I’d rather have nothing
Good ol Wisconsin nice
Was the fan doing things the Cardinal way?