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Collecting Game-used: An Opening Day moment from the past
This one isn’t that old ... but it’s a sign of the times.
With a new Opening Day in MLB upon us soon -- that’s next week -- I figured now might be a good time to trot out something in this Collecting Game-used series that I picked up in the past but it simply sat because, well, the visuals here appeared to be limited. It’s a second baseball (and another one tied to my player) where if you want to know how simple things in the everyday for sports have changed over the years -- just the recent years -- it’s a perfect example.
The ball is just over a decade old, but there's no irrefutable video (at least not yet) to show this one in action over on the impressive MLB Film Room database of video clips. It’s simply too old. And there are no added stats attached to this on its MLB Authentication entry to offer up advanced into on stuff that some people love. (No biggie for me, spin rates aren't on my radar -- I simply don’t care about that.) At that kind of a glance, it's perhaps a ball officially from the stone ages.
But after prepping most of this intro ... well, I did accidentally stumble into some proof of its life in MLB.
You can keep reading to see the details and see the ball in action ...
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This entry was posted in Baseball, Collecting Game-used and tagged Cleveland Indians, MLB, Nick Swisher, MLB Authentication, Oakland A's, YouTube, Jim Johnson, Opening Day, MLB Film Room, Coco Crisp, MLB condensed game on March 19, 2026 by BlowoutBuzz.

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