Ticket Stud or Ticket Dud? You decide ... here's Chapter 50

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? A ticket to an MLB game ... that never happened.

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: Washington Nationals 2012 National League Championship Series -- Home Game 4
The Results: It didn't happen ... well, at least in Washington, D.C. (The 2012 NLCS was Giants vs. Cardinals)
The Attendance: N/A
The Price: $85 (as part of a season ticket package that's what would have been charged)
The Cost (for me): Pocket change as part of a bulk lot.

The Ticket Stud (Key Player): N/A
Others: N/A

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What's Buzz-worthy: With the postseason here, I figured this was the perfect ticket for today -- and a lesson about something unique to the ticket realm that's typically not seen elsewhere, really, other than championship apparel that gets made and never released when a team is set to win it all but doesn't. In this case, this is a phantom ticket -- one prepped for a season ticket package -- giving the buyer dibs on their seat ... if the game happened. The Nats did have a winning season and did make the playoffs this year for the first time in more than 30 years -- and they did it with a notable rookie in their ranks, too, in Bryce Harper. However, they lost in the NLDS making this ticket moot.

Stud or Dud? I barely could make out the year of this ticket at first -- there's a tiny "2012" in the pennants that are part of the Postseason logo on the right side -- so that saved this one and helped give it some time relevance. Harper being a rookie makes this interesting enough to avoid obvious Dud status and there are other good players on that roster who had good seasons, too, but he's the only relevant one for collectors these days as a member of the Phillies. Does this ticket have a lot of substance beyond a Harper kind of piece? Probably not. Would it make an interesting autograph item? Sure ... but there are perhaps better options out there, too.

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