Ways of collecting game used MLB hologramed baseballs

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I have found collecting game used baseballs very enjoyable. For those who haven’t yet delved into it, you might pick your own “set”, “focus”, or “theme” and really enjoy it.

My own focus has been primarily hits of Joey Votto and Jay Bruce, but I have also enjoyed building a modest broader collection. Some notions of set/focus/theme that I’ve seen as cool includes balls used in various stadiums, hit/pitched by teams/players in various years, and commemorative balls. In 2012, the Mets, Astros, Dodgers, Orioles, and Marlins all used special commemorative baseballs in their stadium. And, of course the Postseason balls were commemorative this year as well.

The easiest start to collecting commemorative 2012 balls to your collection is direct from the Mets, the Astros, or Postseason balls from the Reds or Cardinals Authentics’ webstore. Those four are readily available direct from the team and hyperlinks are embedded in this paragraph. Incidentally, Cardianals Authentics is also wonderful for those of you who want to collect balls from past years. You might notice they still inventory their commemorative GU balls from 2006.

My "tag":

I buy Joey Votto items. I am buying (preferred) and when required by the other party will secondarily consider trading for game used Joey Votto items (balls that are Votto hits or Votto HRs, game used bats, etc). If you have such items I’d appreciate to hear from you, even if you are not intending to sell. I am pretty private and don’t post much of my stuff so if you’d like to know what items you might entice from me for a Votto item I’d love you’ll need to start the dialogue. My e-mail is plettner@fuse.net.

If you (like myself) collect or want to collect Joey Votto items, please know you can buy direct from the Reds through Jon Cline of Reds Authentics. You can contact him at jcline@reds.com Reds Authentics’ proceeds go toward the Reds Community Fund. It’s a good cause and certainly a more productive choice than to enrich the small opportunistic reseller(s) who buy from Reds Authentics only to themself re-market it.