Ebay Pickup - 1993 All Star Game OMLB Ball

I was browsing Ebay last week and saw a great price on a 1993 All Star Game OMLB ball and decided to pick it up.  The 1993 game was thelast All Star Game that was held in Baltimore. Rumor has it that Camden Yards will be the site of the 2016 All Star game, but it has not been confirmed, yet.

I got the ball for $18.00, which is about typical for a normal OMLB ball, so I feel like I got a pretty good deal on it.

1993 was the 64th All Star Game and was won by the American League 9-3.  Kirby Puckett won the All Star Game MVP award by hitting a solo home run and later, a run-scoring double.

Future Hall of Famers on the NL side were Tom Glavine, Tony Gwynn, Barry Larkin and Ryne Sandberg.

Hall of Famers playing for the AL were Roberto Alomar, Wade Boggs, Paul Molitor, Puckett, Cal Ripken and Frank Thomas.

Something Cool From The Card Show

 I picked up this Official AL Baseball, new in the box, from a vendor at the card show this past weekend.  I've been looking for older baseballs for some time now and was able to snag this one for only $10.00.  The guy had maybe 4 or 5 more that he was willing to sell me really cheap, but I was on a budget and didn't want to exceed it.

The ball is a Bobby Brown ball, which is really cool, since I just got him TTM.  Would have been a good idea to wait and send this to him, but oh well.

Something I found to be odd/funny, though...  The ball is an official AL baseball, the box even says so, but the stadium pictured on the box is old Busch Stadium.  I saw The Who play there live in 1989.  My first concert...

The ball looks great.  The guy told me that they had bought a bunch of them so someone could sign them, and I guess he didn't sign them all.  The box says copyright 1985, so this was early in Brown's AL presidency, which he was elected to in 1984.