you never know what will sell

First, I would like to extend my thoughts and prayers to the families and victims of 9-11-01. We will NEVER forget you.

Now onto the topic of this blog...


Being New York Yankees fans, when the Yankees were in our area (well, in Kansas City) we naturally went to the games in July and saw them play. One of the games, the Royals gave away George Brett Pine tar tshirts

For anyone who doesn't know, On July 24, 1983, the Royals were playing the Yankees at Yankee Stadium. In the top of the ninth inning, Brett came up to bat against Goose Gossage, his old rival. Brett hit a two-run homer to put the Royals up 5-4. After Brett rounded the bases, Yankees manager Billy Martin calmly walked out of the dugout and used home plate to measure the amount of pine tar, a legal substance used by hitters to improve their grip, on Brett's bat. Martin cited an obscure rule that stated the pine tar on a bat could extend no further than 18 inches. Brett's pine tar extended about 24 inches. Earlier in the season, the Yankees had noted Brett's habit of adding pine tar further than the allowed 18 inches, but waited until a crucial time to point it out to the umpires. (thanks to wikipedia for this info)

The game that they gave away this shirt at was the 24th anniversary of that incident. Being Yankees fans we didn't really want the shirts.. on a whim... we listed them on ebay, we figured if we could get $5 for them we would be happy. Boy were we surprised when they closed! One went for $30.25 and the other $42.55, this was a HUGE shock to us! We even said in the listings that the shirts were given away at the game and they still sold for that much.
This was a lesson for us, you NEVER know what will sell and for how much it will sell..

Until next time...