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March 24, 2008
Would You Spend $25 For A Baggie Of Yankee Stadium Dirt?
Via the Post today -
The Yankees and Mets are in secret talks with the city to buy their old ballparks before the wrecking balls hit - so they can plunder them for lucrative memorabilia to peddle to fans, The Post has learned.
A spokesman for Mayor Bloomberg confirmed the negotiations but would not say how the deals might go down - specifically, whether the city would hope to get a lump sum from the teams or a percentage of the profits of any sale or auction of items.
"At other stadiums, everything from the scoreboards to the dugout urinals have been snatched up by fans, but Yankee Stadium is in a whole other league of collectibles," said Mike Heffner, president of Lelands.com, which has handled several stadium garage sales.
"Each brick could sell for $100 to $300," Heffner said. "I doubt we'd have any trouble selling every seat in the house for as much as $1,000.
"With its huge fan base, Shea Stadium will also fetch a big payday."
Yankee sources and a Mets spokesman separately confirmed the teams' negotiations with the city but refused to give details, citing their ongoing talks.
While the city owns the two stadiums, experts said the teams are in a far better position to bring in bigger bucks from a sell-off because of the emotion factor.
A tiny baggy of infield dirt from Yankee Stadium could fetch $25, experts said.
Well, that's a lot less than what Big Stein paid Howie Spira, years ago, for some dirt...so, maybe it's a bargain?
Posted by Steve Lombardi at March 24, 2008 04:34 PM
Comments
I appologize if I offend somebody, but I think to spend any amount of money on dirt is retarded.
Posted by: Corey ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.waswatching.com/nav-commenters.gif)
at March 24, 2008 05:22 PM
If you intend to buy Yankee Stadium dirt, please punch yourself in the face. And don't have kids. I mean seriously -- this memorabilia/collecting thing is out of control. People have become insane. I remember my uncle ran onto Shea's field to tear a piece of it up and take it home -- he put it in his closet in a plastic bag. I could never understand why anyone would want to keep a lump of field turf in their closet.
I hope no Yankee fans add bags of dirt to their collections.
Posted by: baileywalk at March 24, 2008 08:44 PM
I have some dirt from Tiger Stadium. Got it for free. Sold some of it, actually.
Posted by: Raf at March 25, 2008 10:19 AM