\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHere’s *** rare find that’s netting *** kid some big bucks. Nine year old Mason Dean and his dad visit *** card shop every month hunting for their top players. We normally just look around and if I feel lucky we normally get it. On *** recent trip, they struck gold, unwrapping an autographed rookie card from Chicago White Sox infielder Munataka Murakami. I was like, This is crazy. Deciding to cash in on their good fortune, reportedly auctioning the card for almost $75,000. And what’s *** nine-year-old to do with all that money? I wanted to buy more cards, and some of it I wanted to get. Not so fast, my friend. Dad has other ideas. If you can take the value of it as is and put it towards the college fund, that’s what we opted to do.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA 9-year-old boy from Arizona won a nice chunk of change recently, thanks in part to the signature of Chicago White Sox infielder and slugger Munetaka Murakami.Back in April, Mason Deane picked out a box of Topps Chrome Black Baseball Cards. Inside the box was an autographed rookie card for Murakami, often known by his nickname Mooney, who has had a solid rookie season so far.After much debate, Mason and his dad, Bradley, agreed to sell the card for $75,000. But Mason and his dad, appearing on television in Arizona Diamondbacks gear, also had slightly different ideas when it came to how to spend that money.”If you can take the value of it as is and put it towards the college fund, that’s what we opted to do,” said Bradley Deane.Mason wasn’t thinking so much about the long game.”I wanted to buy more cards. And some of it, I wanted to get V-Bucks,” Mason said.V-Bucks are in-game currency for the game Fortnite, and they cost real bucks \u2013 though they’re not up there with college tuition.Mason and his dad successfully sold the card, and then reached out to the White Sox.They plan to attend a game in Chicago next month, and will meet Mooney in person.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
A 9-year-old boy from Arizona won a nice chunk of change recently, thanks in part to the signature of Chicago White Sox infielder and slugger Munetaka Murakami.<\/p>\n
Back in April, Mason Deane picked out a box of Topps Chrome Black Baseball Cards. Inside the box was an autographed rookie card for Murakami, often known by his nickname Mooney, who has had a solid rookie season so far.<\/p>\n
After much debate, Mason and his dad, Bradley, agreed to sell the card for $75,000. <\/p>\n
But Mason and his dad, appearing on television in Arizona Diamondbacks gear, also had slightly different ideas when it came to how to spend that money.<\/p>\n
“If you can take the value of it as is and put it towards the college fund, that’s what we opted to do,” said Bradley Deane.<\/p>\n
Mason wasn’t thinking so much about the long game.<\/p>\n
“I wanted to buy more cards. And some of it, I wanted to get V-Bucks,” Mason said.<\/p>\n
V-Bucks are in-game currency for the game Fortnite, and they cost real bucks \u2013 though they’re not up there with college tuition.<\/p>\n
Mason and his dad successfully sold the card, and then reached out to the White Sox.<\/p>\n
They plan to attend a game in Chicago next month, and will meet Mooney in person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here’s *** rare find that’s netting *** kid some big bucks. Nine year old Mason Dean and his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":740539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2379],"tags":[92019,146,22,92015,5,51776,92020,138,92022,49,2561,92017,89563,89566,92016,92011,92012,4,92021,73,3413,89562,92018,92014,10939,92013,89565,396,42457,2562,90946],"class_list":["post-740538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago-white-sox","tag-9-year-old-boy","tag-arizona","tag-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-autographed-card","tag-baseball","tag-baseball-card","tag-card-sale","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-game","tag-chicago-white-sox","tag-chicagowhitesox","tag-college-fund","tag-demand-menu-subscribe","tag-email-weather-search","tag-fortnite","tag-kmnd","tag-mason-deane","tag-mlb","tag-mooney","tag-munetaka-murakami","tag-page","tag-privacy-notice-term","tag-rare-card","tag-rookie-card","tag-slugger","tag-topps-chrome-black","tag-use-nextfre","tag-white-sox","tag-white-sox-game","tag-whitesox","tag-wjcl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116846301247370372","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=740538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/740539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}