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Your collection may be "small" but size doesn't matter in this instance! The quality of your collection is outstanding! Nice displays and thanks for posting!!
Peace,
John
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Awesome collection and I followed you on Instagram after seeing it. The only hit baseballs I have that I am attached to are my Chipper Jones hits.
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Thank you!! As I stated please feel free to add any collection pics into this thread.
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I have a very extensive collection of game used hit baseballs from Orioles up and coming 2B Jonathan Schoop! I actually own 10 of his career 185 hits. Highlights include:
Career Hits: 28, 64, 83, 85, 87, 88, 91, 113, 143, 153
Career Doubles: 17, 18, 20
Career Homeruns: 8
Career RBIs: 14, 24, 25, 37, 38, 42, 43
Always looking to add to my hit collection of his!
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Here is the Schoop homerun.
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The bulk of my collection is minor and foreign leagues, but I do have some MLB baseballs. You can see them here:
http://www.facebook.com/HistoryOfOrg...lTheCollection
Posted is a ball from a highly hyped prospect who was in baseball for only one year (last year today, I believe) despite all the attention he received. He was traded several times and tried out for multiple positions. With this ball he struck out for the Cubs in one of only two at-bats in his career.
I guess he decided he was more suited to a career in acting.
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I was fortunate to get the last hit of Bryce Harper's record setting 2015 season which was a double at CitiField on October 4 2015 in the 9th inning of the last game.
It gave him the OBP crown, and helped his OPS. He fell short in the last few days of the season on the Batting Average crown and of course won the unanimous MVP.
I hope to get the clubhouse manager to add the stats to the ball like he does with significant baseballs.
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Nice stuff guys! Keep the pics coming!
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This is my favorite ball from my favorite player. HR #90, Career Hit #955. This same ball was hit for a Double by Casey Kotchman. Retrieved by Ichiro. Only 1 of 2 HR's authenticated in Cleveland. Video can be found on letsgotribe.com 2012 In Review-Jose Lopez
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Chipper Jones career hits 2598 (double), 2618 (single), 2707 (single)
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Picked up some great baseballs this past week.
My favorite Pitcher right now MAD Max helping his own cause by picking up his First Hit of the year! A 2 RBI DOUBLE against the Phillies on 4/16/16.
Gotta love the devil horn fist pump !!
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The Mets Michael Conforto has been red hot so far batting 3rd in the line-up.
Here's his RBI Double Hit against the Indians. 18th Career Double / 31st Career RBI
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I've gotten into this aspect of game used just this year and I better stop if I want to pay the rent.
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Swoboda4
I've gotten into this aspect of game used just this year and I better stop if I want to pay the rent.
Good to see you found a way to display baseballs that tell their story. You have come along way since the "reason we don't prefer collecting baseballs" thread. Glad to see you have gotten onboard and enjoy it.
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I agree, Swoboda4 you have come along way since that particular thread. I'm glad to see that you have changed your tune on collecting the actual ball from the baseball game. You have some very nice balls there that anyone would love to have in their collection. Those balls are the heart and soul of the game and I believe they are the most important thing in the game. After all if there were no baseball there would be no baseball game. My very first GU item was a ball and I only dreamed of expanding my collection from there. Ill post some of my favorite balls on here sometime soon.
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Lakeerie92 and TBM, I apologize. I'm amazed. And I'm watching AT BAT to know and describe more about what a ball went through before it went out of play. MLB's last play description isn't enough. I'm describing 4x's more what happened then what they are. Syndergaard's ball wouldn't be 99 mph unless I watched the pitch before....
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Lakeerie92 and TBM, I apologize. I'm amazed. And I'm watching AT BAT to know and describe more about what a ball went through before it went out of play. MLB's last play description isn't enough. I'm describing 4x's more what happened then what they are. Syndergaard's ball wouldn't be 99 mph unless I watched the pitch before....
Nothing at all to apologize for. I thought it was funny that you are now so into them.
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I know. Here's one more. You know you may have a collecting problem when you find stuff you forgot you bought.
But here's my example again; the MLB Authentication correctly states this baseball was thrown by Niese with Bourn hitting a single and Prado hitting a triple. Good enough for any game used baseball. But I went to MLB At Bat and found the game wasn't available (2011) but the Gameday was, and the inning by inning breakdown revealed the ball was also thrown by Thole to Justin Turner who tagged Bourn out in an attempt to steal second. I'm glad I found that out. I guess what's interesting about collecting baseballs, which I didn't realize, is that you can find out additional things that happened to the ball that wasn't listed (Eg: Did Jeter touch the ball? Did Syndergaard throw it 100mph? Is the fly out baseball caught by an all-star?). You find this out before the sale or auction's end and bid accordingly. So if one of Syndergaard's pitched baseballs are researched and found to have been thrown 100mph, I believe it to be worth more and the effort to get it.
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I know. Here's one more. You know you may have a collecting problem when you find stuff you forgot you bought.
But here's my example again; the MLB Authentication correctly states this baseball was thrown by Niese with Bourn hitting a single and Prado hitting a triple. Good enough for any game used baseball. But I went to MLB At Bat and found the game wasn't available (2011) but the Gameday was, and the inning by inning breakdown revealed the ball was also thrown by Thole to Justin Turner who tagged Bourn out in an attempt to steal second. I'm glad I found that out. I guess what's interesting about collecting baseballs, which I didn't realize, is that you can find out additional things that happened to the ball that wasn't listed (Eg: Did Jeter touch the ball? Did Syndergaard throw it 100mph? Is the fly out baseball caught by an all-star?). You find this out before the sale or auction's end and bid accordingly. So if one of Syndergaard's pitched baseballs are researched and found to have been thrown 100mph, I believe it to be worth more and the effort to get it.
I sold that ball to you!
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Ha! Got any more?! Talk about funny.
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Four Consecutive Trout Hits over a 4 game span. 2 Singles and 2 Doubles
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CJMEZZ, those four are great. A fresh crop from this year.
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And the hits keep on coming.
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I have noticed a lot of strike out balls become labeled as fouls to the screen or pitches in the dirt to the following batter.
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I have noticed a lot of strike out balls become labeled as fouls to the screen or pitches in the dirt to the following batter.
I can definitely attest to the fact that K baseballs are much harder to get than hits. Pitchers fairly commonly throw hits out of play because they don't want to use that baseball anymore. I talked to Andrew Cashner about it and joked with him that he should throw out all of the strike out baseballs and he said that I was crazy, those are the best baseballs and they want to keep using them. Third out K's get thrown in the stands by the catcher normally so the authenticators really have to be on their game to get strike out baseballs by following them through multiple at bats.
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helf35
I have noticed a lot of strike out balls become labeled as fouls to the screen or pitches in the dirt to the following batter.
That's why researching a game used ball beyond the initial description will more often than not, reveal a lot more. Re:The Andrelton Simmons triple above was used in a strikeout the batter before, pitched at one point 99 mph, and was played by Stanton in the field(all not mention in the MLB authentication).
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A couple questions...
I noticed none of the pictured hit balls are signed? Any particular reason?
I have a Paul Konerko hit ball. I want to have it inscribed "Hit # 2,204." Would you also add an "RBI # 1,351" inscription?
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salukidave
A couple questions...
I noticed none of the pictured hit balls are signed? Any particular reason?
I have a Paul Konerko hit ball. I want to have it inscribed "Hit # 2,204." Would you also add an "RBI # 1,351" inscription?
If you are going to have it signed and inscribed then I would definitely have them add the stats whether it be hits, RBIs or both.
I don't get baseballs signed because I don't care for signatures. The only items I have signed are only because they came that way with the exception of one item. I have never gotten onboard with signed items. Having an item that was used is great, I never saw value in having them write on it. I realize I am definitely in the minority on that one.
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That's why researching a game used ball beyond the initial description will more often than not, reveal a lot more. Re:The Andrelton Simmons triple above was used in a strikeout the batter before, pitched at one point 99 mph, and was played by Stanton in the field(all not mention in the MLB authentication).
I agree, for my benefit I have found several Chris Sale Strike out balls. I have even picked up one from his 1 hitter on mothers day in 12' or 13' cant remember the year I will have to look. It was actually labeled pitch in the dirt and the only pitch in the dirt was for strike 3. You could see on mlb tv that the catcher flipped it to the ball boy and got a new ball. I will write down who fouled it back and inning ect when I go to a game so I can try and pick it up later. I found a few last year from his 15K game against the cubs and one was a Bryant K.
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Nothing too fancy. I found this while going through some of my items in storage and having previously browsed this thread thought I'd share. I've always enjoyed WBC game used items and have quite a few in my collection.
This is Team Netherlands first hit of the 2013 WBC. Which happened to be a double by Andruw Jones.
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One of my favorite Nationals, Ryan Zimmerman hit this Home Run Ball on 4/19/16 Marlins vs. Nationals. His 1st Home Run of 2016 and his 201st Home Run of his career. This capped of the 4 Home Run 7th inning right after Bryce Harper hit his 2nd grand-slam of his career.
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salukidave
A couple questions...
I noticed none of the pictured hit balls are signed? Any particular reason?
I have a Paul Konerko hit ball. I want to have it inscribed "Hit # 2,204." Would you also add an "RBI # 1,351" inscription?
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From April 4th, 2016 Longoria's double off of RA Dickey:
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I had my 15-yr old son pick out a game used/issued hat & ball in a bag at Target Field last night. Came with a game issued hat from Jose Martinez and a ball that had some awesome game use. I could tell it was more than just a foul ball back to the screen or a pitch in the dirt. When we got to our seats we looked up the hologram and it was an Albert Pujols single and then he scored on a triple by Howie Kendrick with the same ball. In doing additional research during the delay, we found out that this was actually Pujols' career hit 2,499. He would later add 2,500 in the same game. Not a bad pick up for $49.99.
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