Ticket Stud or Ticket Dud? You decide ... here's Chapter 36

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? Some MLB games from this time of year that went undocumented ... and one that was reality.

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 Postseason
The Event: Houston Astros at New York Yankees at Detroit Tigers -- Oct. 6, 2015 American League Wild Card Game. (Plus phantom tickets for Yankees' ALCS & ALDS appearances that never happened.)
The Results: Astros 3, Yankees 0
The Attendance: 47,309 at Yankee Stadium
The Price: $61
The Cost (for me): Pocket change as part of a bulk lot.

The Ticket Stud (Key Player): Astros SP Dallas Keuchel six scoreless innings with seven strikeouts.
Others: Astros: OF Colby Rasmus (HR), OF Carlos Gomez (HR), 2B Jose Altuve (RBI), OF George Springer, SS Carlos Correa; Yankees: DH Alex Rodriguez, SP Masahiro Tanaka ... but no real highlights for the Yankees who had just three hits.

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What's Buzz-worthy: This run of postseason tickets from my mystery box show how things can all be ready to go in all those season ticket books that used to be out there -- these were all for the same seat -- but can become odd but meaningless phantom tickets easily if a team fails to make the postseason or get bumped early like the Yankees were here. The box scores have some key names in there but for the nuts and bolts of this one's result there wasn't a whole lot going on in that single Wild Card game other than a pitching performance and some offensive basics.

Stud or Dud? They're likely all duds here in the big picture unless one is a diehard autograph collector or a Dallas Keuchel fan who doesn't mind the opposition's colors on a ticket. The ticket designs are pretty clean and free of other randomly selected players so they might look better signed than some regular-season tickets that were for games that, you know, happened.

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