On Sunday, Topps introduced a one-of-a-kind baseball card for rookie sensation Paul Skenes.
The uncommon card that options Skenes’ rookie debut patch was launched in a pack on Wednesday. Now, the Pittsburgh Pirates are desperately looking for that card.
The Pirates are providing the fan who finds the cardboard two Pirates season tickets behind dwelling plate for the subsequent 30 years and a softball recreation for 30 individuals at PNC Park, plus teaching from former Pirates gamers.
The package deal additionally features a distinctive spring coaching expertise, together with a non-public tour of Pirates Metropolis and LECOM Park. It additionally features a meet and greet with Skenes, two autographed jerseys and the flexibility to take batting apply with the crew.
Skenes additionally has the posh of getting a really well-known girlfriend, LSU gymnast and social media sensation Livvy Dunne, who raised the supply. The one who finds the cardboard can sit along with her at a Pirates recreation in her suite.
An egotistical supply? Maybe. She does have a ton of followers and obsessed followers on-line who would soar on the alternative to satisfy her. However this has turned out to be fairly the supply for a really uncommon card.
This card might be in demand. Skenes goes to be the NL Rookie of the Yr and was named to the 2024 All-MLB First Workforce. It gained’t simply be Pirates followers trying to find this factor. Collectors from across the nation might be ripping packs in hopes of discovering it.
Michael Rubin, the founder and CEO of Fanatics, has already hinted that he might need to outbid the Pirates on their supply. He has a internet price of $10.6 billion. If he actually needs that card, he’s going to get that card.
If somebody exterior of Pittsburgh finds the cardboard, the supply won’t appear that nice. Possibly they may provide the face worth of these dwelling plate season tickets for the subsequent 30 years? That will at the very least begin a dialog.
That is a type of loopy situations the place it actually will depend on who finds the cardboard. If it goes to some preteen in Pennsylvania, the Pirates will be capable to proudly show that card in PNC Park how they wish to.
But when some older, grasping sportswriter occurred to get their fingers on it, you higher imagine they might be calling Rubin and promoting that factor to the best bidder for chilly, laborious money.
Good luck getting that card, Pirates.