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 residence plate for the following 30 years and a softball sport for 30 folks at PNC Park, plus teaching from former Pirates gamers.
The bundle 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 group.
Skenes additionally has the posh of getting a really well-known girlfriend, LSU gymnast and social media sensation Livvy Dunne, who raised the provide. The one who finds the cardboard can sit along with her at a Pirates sport in her suite.
An egotistical provide? Maybe. She does have a ton of followers and obsessed followers on-line who would bounce on the alternative to fulfill her. However this has turned out to be fairly the provide for a really uncommon card.
This card can be in demand. Skenes goes to be the NL Rookie of the Yr and was named to the 2024 All-MLB First Group. It gained’t simply be Pirates followers trying to find this factor. Collectors from across the nation can be ripping packs in hopes of discovering it.
Michael Rubin, the founder and CEO of Fanatics, has already hinted that he may need to outbid the Pirates on their provide. He has a internet value of $10.6 billion. If he actually needs that card, he’s going to get that card.
If somebody outdoors of Pittsburgh finds the cardboard, the provide won’t appear that nice. Possibly they might provide the face worth of these residence plate season tickets for the following 30 years? That might a minimum of begin a dialog.
That is a type of loopy situations the place it actually depends upon 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, exhausting money.
Good luck getting that card, Pirates.
