Fan returns 3,000th hit to Jeter, team rewards his generosity

[Trouble]

DRR wrote: Someone explain to me how MLB has managed to shift thinking that the player who hit the ball "owns" it or that he has a rightful claim to it somehow.

It wasn't MLB that shifted the thinking. The reason why some people think the ball belongs to the batter and not the fan in the stands who caught it ( and I don't agree with this thinking, just answering your question) is that the ball is an "ill gotten gain." The he didn't do anything to earn that ball like winning the lottery without buying a ticket. Again, I don't agree with that. I would have determined the right price for the ball and tripled it.

[GGD]

Possibly $14K in taxes for the stuff the Yankees gave him.

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/07/12/fan...?hpt=hp_t2

[freeradical]

Jeter should do the right, moral, ethical, whatever thing, and pay off this guys student loan and tax liability.

It's the least a Billionaire like him should do.

[Dennis S]

GGD wrote:
Possibly $14K in taxes for the stuff the Yankees gave him.

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/07/12/fan...?hpt=hp_t2

Did they give him anything he can really make use of? It looks like no good deed goes unpunished.