With Jeter coming up on his 3000th hit i was wondering if any players 3000th hit was a home run therefore making it able to be caught and kept by a fan/collector.....i know the honorable thing to do would be to give it back but aside from homerun record setting balls what are the good stories of other record breaking hits? Any good stories out there?
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so does anyone know the story on what happened to the ball? When did the MLB get wise to start using marked balls?Comment
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Arods 600th homer was retreived by a security guard, he got a signed bat.
Mark Teixeria's 300th hr was caught by a fan, he got a signed bat AND ball as well as the opportunity to go on the field and take a picture with tex. Guess tex needed to 1up arod or should i say 2upComment
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Arods 600th homer was retreived by a security guard, he got a signed bat.
Mark Teixeria's 300th hr was caught by a fan, he got a signed bat AND ball as well as the opportunity to go on the field and take a picture with tex. Guess tex needed to 1up arod or should i say 2up
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Some fool threw Arod's 300th back onto the field in Anaheim a few years back, Arod was quoted in the paper saying he pretty much had an entire uniform ready to trade for the ball and thank the guy for giving it back for free.
a few days later the Rangers were in Oakland and I Arod was hitting off the T in front of me so I yelled out "since you didn't have to give anything up for that 300th HR can I get a bat or batting glove" He just kinda chuckled and said nope.Comment
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And now, so has Jeter. The ball was hit into the seats in left field, where a man tried to catch it barehanded, fumbled it, and his adult son grabbed it off the ground. Clean outcome, no San Francisco-type scrum followed by a lawsuit, and no Waveland Avenue (1998) pileup in which the guy who legitimately grabbed it had to cough it up to avoid being crushed at the bottom of a human dogpile. The lucky fan is being rewarded with tickets to 4 premium seats for the remainder of the season as well as any postseason games the Yanks play at home.
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The downfall to the story of the guy catching it and recieving the royalties from the team as far as seats for the rest of the year and i believe he got some signed items, now the IRS wants the money for the value of everything he is getting from what i read they are wanting him to pay taxes somewhere in the neighborhood of 10-13,000. I do believe i would tell the Yankees to keep there seats or pay the gift tax.Comment
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The downfall to the story of the guy catching it and recieving the royalties from the team as far as seats for the rest of the year and i believe he got some signed items, now the IRS wants the money for the value of everything he is getting from what i read they are wanting him to pay taxes somewhere in the neighborhood of 10-13,000. I do believe i would tell the Yankees to keep there seats or pay the gift tax.
Jim
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with the IRS it will be a neverending vicious cycle though won't it? They will want to tax the $15k that he gets to cover the payment then tax whatever he gets to cover that expense and so and and so on.Comment
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I believe by law you can be "gifted" $10,000. I am not sure, but would it be possible for miller or modells to "hire" him as a consultant/PR person and pay him, with some of those wages being taxed?
Either way, I think it'll work out for him and on top, he gets his own card by Topps. That's pretty awesome in itself. Let's hope it's not his game worn shirt from that day though!Cheers,
Jack
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