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

[haikuman]

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/blog/big_lea...lb-wp12123

What would you have done... ?


As a 23-year-old cell phone salesman, Christian Lopez had thousands of reasons to hold out for the highest bidder on the baseball from Derek Jeter's(notes) 3,000th hit. In fact, some estimates put the ball's worth at $250,000, money that the recent graduate from St. Lawrence University could have certainly used.
And yet when New York Yankees officials found Lopez after he corralled Jeter's historic home run, the only thing that the big Yankees fan wanted was to return the ball to the man who had hit it.

[Speedy]

I'd of auctioned it off to the high bidder. Just what the Yanks do when they take star players from other teams.

[haikuman]

I am inclined to believe the Yankees should have given him fair market value as the reward.

I am more inclined to measure the young mans integrity and character very high and this will bode him
very well in the future. Just not in accounting *(:>*

Rudie

[freeradical]

Speedy wrote:
I'd of auctioned it off to the high bidder. Just what the Yanks do when they take star players from other teams.

+1

[MacArtist]

Big Business can do anything under the umbrella of "it's just good business". Like outsourcing jobs, declaring bankruptcy, mass layoffs, etc.

A person is expected to "do the right thing".

I'm a little jaded. I think in this case I would have auctioned the ball off.

If it means so much to Jeter, let him place the highest bid.

[macphanatic]

freeradical wrote:
[quote=Speedy]
I'd of auctioned it off to the high bidder. Just what the Yanks do when they take star players from other teams.

+1 +2

[Yoyodyne ArtWorks]

MacArtist wrote:
Big Business can do anything under the umbrella of "it's just good business". Like outsourcing jobs, declaring bankruptcy, mass layoffs, etc.

A person is expected to "do the right thing".

I'm a little jaded. I think in this case I would have auctioned the ball off.

If it means so much to Jeter, let him place the highest bid.

Ditto.

[Speedy]

Damn Yankees (haters,)

[Racer X]

MacArtist wrote:
Big Business can do anything under the umbrella of "it's just good business". Like outsourcing jobs, declaring bankruptcy, mass layoffs, etc.

A person is expected to "do the right thing".

I'm a little jaded. I think in this case I would have auctioned the ball off.

If it means so much to Jeter, let him place the highest bid.

It's appalling to me that a corporation gets the same rights afforded to an individual (thanks Supreme Court) but not the same responsibilities, nor abide by the same laws.

[Numo]

Auction the ball plus give a generous sum to your favorite charity. Who could criticize that?