If you caught Aaron Judge's 62nd homer, would you hand it over to him or keep it and sell it for 7 figures?

From what I understand the home team provides the balls, not MLB.

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I would then sign my name on the ball and then sell it to the highest bidder. The value would probably drop some but still would bank some cash and would possibly end up in the Hall of Fame. Everyone in Cooperstown would see my name.

Superb idea. But be sure to sign it twice so they can't hide your one signature with a clever display angle.

Nobody will hand it over. It's not like the guy is hurting for millions.

I feel like people are overlooking the fact that "American League record" is pretty much meaningless - made up to generate more excitement than is really justified. It's like some sportswriters started saying "oh, golly, he might get the American League record for home runs this year" and people just kind of went along with it, without stopping to think, wait, is it somehow harder to hit home runs in the American League than the National League?

MLB record for home runs in a season is the only record that matters in this case.

I love the "but it's a free-market" argument that ingores the fact that a union is part of the free market. Let me help educate you. WInd back the clock 55 years. Here is your post to me.

Rojo, are you suggesting the players unionize? How are they getting screwed over when they choose to play for at least $6,000 a year? They don't have to be pro ball players. If they don't like making $6,000 a year, they can choose to work elsewhere.

Game set match Rojo. Where is your economics degree from?

Rather, many wealthy people got wealthy not because of greed but because of self interest. It is in my self interest to make the best deals I can for myself. it is not necessarily greedy of me to do so.

Things could get a little dicey before the ball is clearly in someone's possession

But once someone clearly has it security will be all over the situation and they'll be tons of TV cameras monitoring everything

So once you're in possession security will usher you away to Yankee offices to provide accommodation for a safe trip home.... Heck they might even have a safe on site where they offer to store the baseball temporarily....

I mean these people aren't idiots they're going to be well prepared and there has been other famous home run balls caught without incidents so...

Anyway there certainly could be a scuffle if the ball is hit and no one catches it right away and it could be quite a fight for the ball in that situation

But once someone can clearly hold the ball up in their hands it's theirs and security will be right there to usher them away to safety

And the cameras will definitely be monitoring for any crimes or assaults being committed in the crowds so people will be aware of that

Also I think the 62nd home run ball will be the most valuable and the smart thing to do would probably be to put it in auction over the next few months let the excitement build a little but strike fairly quickly while there's still a lot of excitement

I could definitely see the ball selling for somewhere slightly over a million dollars who knows maybe even more... There's a lot of rich people with cash to burn and it's definitely a memorable and historic item if and when it happens

I bet Judge can't even touch my curveball

After all this discussion, watch any record setting ball end up landing in the bullpen.

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For the person who catches Aaron Judge's 62nd home run ball, you're talking about potentially life-changing money.

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1 to 5 million is what experts are saying! A lot of naive people have returned valuable such items in the past! You'd be a fool not to capitalize! I mean that's asking like why don't all the professionals just play for charity! Why are they all making millions of dollars! Why aren't they happy just to have first class accommodations and give all their money to charity!

The 700 home run club is more exclusive than the 60/season club. How much is that ball from tonight worth?

Here's the fight for Aaron judges 60th home run ball

One guy gets it and just bounces out of the pile

I mean yeah people are wrestling for it but they're not exactly trying to hurt each other...

But the guy then just gave it back for nothing but a couple of sign things gave away 100K or more...

Either way, it's worthless as soon as he's caught doping

Yeah but the Aaron judge home run ball will bring tons more money because it's the Yankees, it's the American League record, it's breaking a long time historic Yankee record

And in some sense it's really like a baseball record because the other records were done on steroids and at least now they supposedly test for steroids so...

At least for the time being it's kind of like a legit thing compared to a shady past

And honestly Albert has way less excitement than Aaron judge and in a few years no one really care that much about the 700th while the 62nd was still be a big deal

Well, you could certainly sell it much quicker than that'll happen, if and when that happens... No one's in a rush to catch him and right now no one knows for sure so...

Yeah but how could fans possibly unionize when you're talking about a pool of hundreds of millions of people?

It's not really clear that the producers of a product are the same as the consumers of a product?

Your argument historically makes sense for people who are producing or laboring!

I mean yeah consumers can organize through different action movements such as boycott this product or boycott that product!

But how would consumers really organize against simply the current price of certain goods outside of simply the economic choice of buying power!

In other words consumers are free to spend their time and money how they want and that dictates the varying prices of the free market!

So baseball tickets are high because you have a much higher demand than availability!

That is the free market system in action!

I'd be interested to hear what you are actually suggesting but, I can't think of any way that in our current economic system you could organize to control the prices of entertainment outside of simply the choices people make!

I have to agree, rojo, what you are suggesting doesn't really make sense. Unions were a way for groups of workers to get better treatment from the owners! And yes consumers can rally together to a point but as the other person responds here, it's really the free market system that determines prices, and that is determined by consumer choice!

History of unions was about giving workers a fair shake. but work is much more a necessity for a society than is the particular entertainment people choose to spend their money on!

People can lower the prices by simply not going to baseball games! But it's much tougher to collectively organize hundreds of millions of people, or the behavior of hundreds of millions of consumers, than it is a group of shared workers!