Aaron Judge He broke the record for home runs in a season in the American League on Tuesday, which he had until this year Roger Maris with 61, getting his 62nd homer in a spectacular and historic course for the star of the yankees from New York. And now a new story begins: that of the ball with which Judge ended a historical mark.
‘El Juez’, as Judge is known, passed sentence and, to a pitch from Venezuelan Jesús Tinoco, sent the ball over the wall in the first episode of the second game that measured the Yankees against the Texas Rangers this Tuesday .
With a big smile, Judge received congratulations from all his Yankees teammates and, despite playing on the road, the entire Rangers crowd rose to their feet to applaud his impressive achievement.
Judge’s homer was his 62nd of the season, breaking the 61-year American League record held by former Yankees outfielder Roger Maris, who hit 61 homers in 1961.
Aaron Judge: a brand that was long in coming
This homer number 62 was made to beg since Judge had tied it last Wednesday at 61 with Maris but since then had not managed to send the ball out of the park.
Plus, the Yankees are already heading into the final stretch of the regular season with only one more game left (again against the Rangers on Wednesday), so Judge was running out of time to reach this all-time high.
The record for home runs in a season in the American League is the exclusive property of the Yankees since it has passed from one player of the New York franchise to another until reaching Judge in the current Major League campaign.
The image of the ball that Judge supposedly took out of the park to end Roger Maris’ historic record is already beginning to circulate on social networks.
How much can the ball be priced at now?
How much can that ball be worth now that Judge broke the mark? Scott Mann, owner of American Dreams Sportscards, a specialist sports memorabilia store, believes its value could be too high.
“It’s hard to say, but I’d guess a ball like that would be worth half a million dollars at least,” Mann was quoted as saying by star-telegram.com.
However, if that ball goes to auction, it could exceed two million dollars, says Mann himself, who recalled, for example, that a LeBron James card, which included the NBA logos of the three jerseys that he used (Cavaliers, Heat and Lakers), it sold for 5.3 million dollars.
The ball, for now, has an owner, and as the saying goes, silver calls silver: The one who caught it is called Corey Youmans, identified as a vice president of Fisher Investments, an independent money management firm in Washington state. So if anyone can tell what it’s worth, it’s him…
Rangers security identified Corey Youmans as the fan who caught Aaron Judge’s 62nd HR ball. He’s the VP at Fisher Investments, which manages $197 billion worldwide. pic.twitter.com/KgsyuuFyQa
— splitterball (@splitterbaII) October 5, 2022
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