{"id":804913,"date":"2026-09-14T16:15:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T16:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/804913\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T16:15:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T16:15:21","slug":"a-seattle-teen-turned-a-free-baseball-card-into-20100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/804913\/","title":{"rendered":"A Seattle Teen Turned a Free Baseball Card Into $20,100"},"content":{"rendered":"

Abby, a 13-year-old from Poulsbo, Washington, went to a Seattle Mariners baseball game expecting nothing more than a fun night. She left with a trading card<\/a> worth $20,100, the Seattle Times <\/a>reports.<\/p>\n

The card featured Jimothy, a raccoon with an unusually short, round shape who went viral this summer after videos of him wandering a Seattle neighborhood spread online. In his honor, the team gave out Jimothy cards to the first 20,000 fans through the gate.<\/p>\n

Hidden in those 20,000 was a single one-of-one gold version, and Abby got it. As soon as word spread around the stadium, fans approached with cash in hand. A Mariners staffer even asked if the family would sell it to help get the card to starting pitcher George Kirby. They held onto it.<\/p>\n

Abby\u2019s family put the card up on eBay<\/a>, drew more than 100 bids and closed at $20,100. \u201cEvery dime of this is going into Abby\u2019s college fund,\u201d her mom, Jessie Nino, said.<\/p>\n

Abby, a 13-year-old from Poulsbo, Washington, went to a Seattle Mariners baseball game expecting nothing more than a fun night. She left with a trading card<\/a> worth $20,100, the Seattle Times <\/a>reports.<\/p>\n

The card featured Jimothy, a raccoon with an unusually short, round shape who went viral this summer after videos of him wandering a Seattle neighborhood spread online. In his honor, the team gave out Jimothy cards to the first 20,000 fans through the gate.<\/p>\n

Hidden in those 20,000 was a single one-of-one gold version, and Abby got it. As soon as word spread around the stadium, fans approached with cash in hand. A Mariners staffer even asked if the family would sell it to help get the card to starting pitcher George Kirby. They held onto it.<\/p>\n

Abby\u2019s family put the card up on eBay<\/a>, drew more than 100 bids and closed at $20,100. \u201cEvery dime of this is going into Abby\u2019s college fund,\u201d her mom, Jessie Nino, said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Abby, a 13-year-old from Poulsbo, Washington, went to a Seattle Mariners baseball game expecting nothing more than a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":804914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2392],"tags":[5,17892,58675,620,4,98179,619,65,3235,31517,49895,4299],"class_list":["post-804913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-seattle-mariners","tag-baseball","tag-collectibles","tag-ebay","tag-mariners","tag-mlb","tag-news-and-trends","tag-seattle","tag-seattle-mariners","tag-seattlemariners","tag-teens","tag-trading-card","tag-viral-videos"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117270290366471054","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804913","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=804913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/804914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}