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!

Posted on Wed, Aug. 29, 2007Digg del.icio.us AIM reprint

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.