# Value of sports memorabilia? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [March 14, 2012, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/value-of-sports-memorabilia/615788 "2012-03-14T20:40:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2012, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/value-of-sports-memorabilia/615788/1 "2012-03-14T20:40:32Z")
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.) ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2012, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/value-of-sports-memorabilia/615788/2 "2012-03-14T20:59:05Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barkis_is_Willin)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2012, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/value-of-sports-memorabilia/615788/3 "2012-03-14T21:03:11Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![lisiate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f05b48/32.png) [@lisiate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisiate)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2012, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/value-of-sports-memorabilia/615788/4 "2012-03-14T21:44:42Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2012, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/value-of-sports-memorabilia/615788/5 "2012-03-14T23:56:51Z")
> [@lisiate](#): > > 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 ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2012, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/value-of-sports-memorabilia/615788/6 "2012-03-15T01:21:27Z")
> [@wheresgeorge04](#): > > What ball? He has a ticket and scorecard… 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. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2012, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/value-of-sports-memorabilia/615788/7 "2012-03-15T09:38:52Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Carter_of_Mars)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2012, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/value-of-sports-memorabilia/615788/8 "2012-03-15T15:11:09Z")
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.