Nationals selling Span 1000th hit ball

[allstarsplus]

By the way, that HR was the 6th Opening Day HR of Adam Dunn's career which set a record

http://m.mlb.com/video/v4027557/nati...days/?c_id=mlb

[Roady]

The ball LH419797 from Garret Anderson's 2500th hit game isn't necessarily the one he hit for the milestone. I own LH419802, which has the identical inscription. So do several balls from the same sequence: eg 41976, etc through the number sequence of holograms.

Unfortunately the MLB authenticators sometimes gave the milestone game, implying that the ball was the actual one. But if one looks through the whole number sequence, one can often find it is only a ball from that game, rather than the actual milestone.

Fortunately, modern authenticators rarely use these misleading hologram descriptions.

It never occurred to me to look at the numbers before and after mine.
No wonder I got it so cheap!
I appreciate your post. I always like to know exactly what I have in my collection.

[coxfan]

Even when an item doesn't turn out as you wish, it is usually possible to find something else meaningful about it. For example, in 2008 I bought a game-used ball (no specifics on its use) from the Rangers' loss to Oakland on 4-26-06. It had personal significance, since it was the first Rangers' game I'd gone to.

But after this year's HOF inductions, I went back and found it was a significant item from Frank Thomas's career. As DH for Oakland in that game, he'd gone 3/4 with a HR. Thomas credited that 2006 comeback year with the A's, after the White Sox had let him go, with helping him reach the HOF. So that 4-26-06 game acquired more meaning, only long after it was played.

With any game-used ball, I recommend going through the hologram sequence of numbers for that game (simply the numbers above and below yours) Then compare that with the play-by-play and box score for the game, using websites like MLB.com and retrosheet.org(which goes back for decades). Then check it all again in future months or years, since the historical significance of any event often occurs long after the event has passed.