Value of sports memorabilia?

Is this worth anything? Rooting around in some old papers, my wife found a ticket to the Mets game of Aug. 23, 2009 along with a complete score card (scored by me). The last item on the score card reads UTP4. For the record in all the maybe 140 years of the National League, it is the only game ever to have ended on an unassisted triple play. (It happened once in the American League.)

A ticket, or ticket stub? Probably not worth much either way, but if framed, a full ticket and scorecard could be a nice piece for yourself to have on the wall…

Joe

I am not a dealer or anything, but I’d be surprised if it was worth anything at all. Especially not now. Maybe in a couple hundred years?

I’d imagine the ball on the other hand would be worth a pretty penny. I don’t know how’d you’d establish provenance though.

What ball? He has a ticket and scorecard…

Joe

I think lisiate is saying that the ball used in the triple play would be worth a pretty penny. MLB has done a pretty good job in recent years of labeling balls used in special situations (such as pitching to a player with 599 HRs) so they can be authenticated. They might be able to tag a ball immediately after the game.

Just for the record, it is a printout of an electronic ticket. Oh well.

I imagine the ball (and Brundtland’s glove) may well have been tagged immediately. I have my memories though.

My WAG, as an amateur collector of sorts: If you put it on ebay there might be some collector interested enough to pay in the $10.00 range for it. Myself, I’d frame it and keep it.