Ticket Stud or Ticket Dud? You decide ... here's Chapter 26

With these Ticket Stud or Ticket Dud stories I'm turning just a tiny bit of that energy just a few degrees away from cards (we'll still have plenty of them here) for a different kind of cardboard. What am I doing? Simple ... this is an occasional dip into some random ticket lots -- a show and tell showing something small with a story.

This time? We turn back the clock to today in 2018 ...

Keep reading to see the details this time ... and tell me if you think it's a Ticket Stud or a Ticket Dud.

THE DETAILS ...
The Category: Major League Baseball (spring training)
The Events: Baltimore Orioles vs. New York Yankees March 21, 2018
The Results: Yankees 9, Orioles 4
The Attendance: 9,974 at George M. Steinbrenner Field (Tampa, Fla)
The Price: $32
The Cost (for me): Pocket change as part of a bulk lot

The Ticket Studs (Key Player): Yankees DH Aaron Judge 2-for-3 with two HRs and four RBI
Others: Giancarlo Stanton, Greg Bird (two RBI), Didi Gregorius (two RBI), Jonathan Schoop (HR), Cedric Mullins (rookie), Nestor Cortes (rookie)

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What's Buzz-worthy: Visually, this one is nice with a clean presentation of a Giancarlo Stanton portrait and plenty of open space for this to be a nice autographed piece ... but it's for a spring game that is pretty meaningless save for a two-homer game from Aaron Judge. Had Judge been on the ticket with that kind of a game it'd be a perfect piece. There are a lot of reliable big-leaguers in the box score for this one but really only Judge is in play big for collectors ... but it's a spring training ticket so the homers don't count. Two other names here do pop out at me ... rookie Nestor Cortes pitching in a game 10 days before his MLB debut against the team where he'd become a bit of a break-out sensation (and MLB All-Star) last season and then another All-Star, Cedric Mullins, with a spring appearance that pre-dates his MLB debut that didn't happen until August 2018. Fun trivia there.

Stud or Dud? It's a nice little stud of a ticket if you ask me. Not expensive but good visuals and a few good reasons to like it.

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