Athlete loses wife, keeps baseball cards!!!

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Posted By: Neal

Nothing like splitting up with your other half and keeping your beloved card collection!

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Washington Nationals first baseman Dmitri Young and wife Rebecca's impending divorce is on the Miami-Dade court docket this week for a final hearing. The couple signed an agreement in June -- before Dmitri received a two-year, $10 million contract extension.

Rebecca, 35, walks with nearly $3.2 million. That includes $1.6 million that Dmitri had given her previously; $1.492 million from the sale of their Weston house, plus another $100,000. Dmitri, 33, must pay $10,000 a month in child support for Owen, 10; Damon, 8, and Layla, 5. (That amount is recalculated yearly based on the parents' circumstances.) He will also put $312,000 into an education trust.

She'll get half of his Major League Baseball pension from '97, when they wed, to '06, when she filed for divorce.

Dmitri keeps his $782,000 baseball card collection, vehicles valued at $202,000 plus an '05 Ford F-350. Dmitri, released last year by the Tigers, signed with the Nationals in February for $500,000.

Attorneys: Peter Kamenesh and Nancy Hass for her; Cynthia Greene and Steven Lachterman for him. Circuit Judge Maxine Cohen Lando has the case, but Thursday's hearing is before Circuit Judge Maynard ''Skip'' Gross. Rebecca now lives in Plantation.

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Posted By: Joseph

Young is a VERY serious collector when it comes to condition/grading.

His passion is 50s and 60s stars. This is a wonderful interview:

http://mlb.mlb.com/pa/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070320&content_id=1851427&vkey=mlbpa_news&fext=.jsp

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Posted By: Tony Andrea

I actually saw an interview with him last year on tv and he has a remarkable collection.
Many 9's and 10's from the 50's and 60's. Mantle, Mays, Williams, etc.
He displayed most of them during the interview.

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Posted By: D.C. Markel

He is indeed a very serious collector. I sold a gorgeous '63 Topps Stargell PSA 9 rookie card to him last year.

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Posted By: peter chao

The wife is a dummy, if she really wanted to get back at Dmitri all she would have to do is take exactly half the baseball cards. Ask her attorney to cut up each of the cards in half and take her share.

Peter C.

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Posted By: barrysloate

Peter- if you cut a PSA 9 in half will it still grade out a 4.5?

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Posted By: paulstratton

Looks like 'Da Meat Hook got fileted. Did she help him hit a 95mph fastball or what?

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Posted By: peter chao

Nah, but PSA would probably still grade it authentic.

Peter C.

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Posted By: Anonymous

Considering that Young has pleaded "no contest" to at least one domestic violence charge it's possible that 95 mph fastballs were not all he was hitting. He's lucky she never destroyed that card collection.

Howard

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Posted By: peter chao

I've sometimes wondered whether a MLB ballplayer would enjoy their collection as much as we do. Somehow I don't think so. Look at it this way, if I tried real hard I might be able throw a baseball at 65 mph, sure I would be in awe of a Roger Clemens whose changeup is probably in the mid-80's.

I worshiped Willie Mays when I was young, but if you are a MLB player you might have played in the same stadiums Mays did. And if you are a veteran, wouldn't hanging out with MLB players become old hat?

Would collecting old baseball cards hold the same fascination?

Peter C.