07-10-2011, 04:40 AM
August West wrote:
I haven't been following any of that so really don't care. I'm just amazed that someone would pay 250 grand for a used baseball....
There's my +1
When something out there is a rare commodity, because of it's rareness, many aficionados and collectors of that rare item can drive up the value due to their coveted desperation to obtain it. The more people that desire the item, the higher the value. Thus, when a baseball player of Derek Jeter's accomplishments coupled with his extreme popularity becomes only the 28th player in the 150 odd year old history of the game of baseball to hit the ball safely 3000 times, it's within the realm of possibility that the value of that 3000th hit could reach the quarter million dollar mark.