Teams negotiate to get back homerun balls

[Gary Dunaier]

Unfortunately, it seems the reprints of the Santana tickets will not be identified as such. I'm a Mets season ticket holder (which means I'll be getting the reprints of the tickets for my seats free) and I asked my representative about this, and she e-mailed back "To my knowledge I do not believe there is any indication that they were reprinted and there is no difference from the originals."

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by Gary Dunaier

Unfortunately, it seems the reprints of the Santana tickets will not be identified as such. I'm a Mets season ticket holder (which means I'll be getting the reprints of the tickets for my seats free) and I asked my representative about this, and she e-mailed back "To my knowledge I do not believe there is any indication that they were reprinted and there is no difference from the originals."

Nice! Expect that the value of these tickets will get much lower as soon as the ticket collector crowd figures this out.

[murphusa]

Originally Posted by Scott Garner

Nice! Expect that the value of these tickets will get much lower as soon as the ticket collector crowd figures this out.

most of the tickets sold after the fact on games like Hallidays perfect game etc had the print date on them. So for Hallidays Perfect game the print date was 2 days after the game date.

Guessing the same will be true on the Mets ticket

[Gary Dunaier]

Here's a "souvenir" Halladay ticket I bought after the fact...


(Barcode digitally removed from image.)

This is a "Ticketmaster" style ticket. "Ticketmaster" and "box office" tickets have the date of printing in the lower left corner, and as murphusa correctly points out in this case "A10JUN0," shows that this ticket was printed after the date of the event.

The Mets will reprint the Santana no-hitter tickets on "season ticket" stock. This is the season ticket for that game...


(Seat number, account number and barcode digitally removed from image.)

As you can see, there's no place where the date of printing is indicated. So, barring some deliberate subtle printing variation, those of us who have the season tickets - and especially those who got caught up in the heat of the moment and paid as much as $500 for one - are, at least from a collecting standpoint, screwed.

[drc]

If you have a real ticket, get proof that you had it before the reprints were made. This can be done by taking a dated photo, putting a picture of it in a letter that is notarized, posting a picture of it on some photo site or this board, etc. If you won it in an auction, print out the auction listing that shows the date of the auction and pictures the ticket. If properly documented/dated in one of these or other ways before the reprints are offered, reprints shouldn't be a concern.

An auction listing picturing the ticket or notarized letter picturing the ticket would be solid proof. The notarization will include the date.

[Gary Dunaier]

Getting back to the original subject of this thread, you might like to know that Steiner is offering, on their website, a ball signed by Jeter and Christian Lopez, the fan who caught it...



Price $774.99. (link)

The same ball, with only Jeter's signature, is $699.99. That means Steiner feels Lopez' autograph is worth $75.00. (On the other hand, let's be fair to Steiner - Lopez' signature does include an inscription).

Comment as you see fit - but please do so in the "What would you have done if you caught Jeter's 3000th hit?" thread. (I posted this item there as well, but I wanted to make sure people knew this item existed, hence the cross-post.)

[Gary Dunaier]

My reprints of the tickets from Johan Santana's no-hitter arrived today.

The reprints are the season ticket style with the Bobby Ojeda image posted earlier in this thread.

The tickets appear to be exactly the same - the account number is printed on the tickets, and there is a barcode. The barcode on the reprints differs from that on the original, but since each barcode is unique, that's not a way to tell the difference.

However, there is one significant difference. The words "SEASON TICKET" do not appear on the reprint. So, thankfully, there is a way to tell the originals apart from the reprints.