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Originally Posted by packs
In the days when this ball was caught I think baseballs cost a pretty penny to regular people. So it could have been that this was the only baseball the person had, which they acquired during a game for free.
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Makes sense. As a kid I had plenty of baseballs that I played ball with, but reserved one nice one for taking to Astros games for autographs. If I had an official MLB ball from a game, it would have been much nicer than my playing balls, so I would have used it for autographs. I still have several baseballs from MLB games that I put away for autographs some day. I have others that I play catch with.
Cool Yankees/Red Sox ball with a pleasant amount of patina and some great autographs that have held up well. Too bad Dippy Dick was so prolific with his own pen.