Ticket Stud or Ticket Dud? You decide ... here's Chapter 16

With these Ticket Stud or Ticket Dud stories I'm turning just a tiny bit of that energy just a few degrees away from cards (we'll still have plenty of them here) for a different kind of cardboard. What am I doing? Simple ... this is an occasional dip into some random ticket lots -- a show and tell showing something small with a story.

This time? An MLB match-up that was in the headlines in the last few days.

Keep reading to see the details this time ... and tell me if you think it's a Ticket Stud or a Ticket Dud.

THE DETAILS ...
The Category: Major League Baseball
The Event: Cleveland Indians at New York Yankees -- Aug. 17, 2019
The Results: Yankees 6, Indians 5
The Attendance: 47,347 at Yankee Stadium, New York City
The Face: $36
The Cost (for me): Literal pocket change as part of a lot.

The Ticket Studs (Key Players): Yankees SS Gleyber Torres went 2-for-4 with two solo HRs
Others: Yankees' Didi Gregorius and D.J. LeMahieu with homers; Indians' Carlos Santana 3-for-4 with three RBI

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What's Buzz-worthy: The weekend fireworks between these two teams doesn't really come into play here but it was a reason I grabbed this one out of my mystery box for some Wednesday afternoon time-filler. The biggest player here, Aaron Judge, had the day off for this game -- bummer -- but Torres had a strong day and the competition did have some big names on the roster all playing -- Francisco Lindor, Jose Ramirez, Jason Kipnis and even Yasiel Puig. (Remember him?) On the pitching side, nothing to see here at all. Aesthetically, the Yankees went with a player focus here -- something that they have done on tickets for years -- but while the spread of some visuals on a ticket sheet might look good names like this one, while a star on the team back then, don't always carry a lot of oomph years later or for people who aren't fans of the team. (There are worse players on tickets, too, and those are in my box.) Gardner went 0-for-3 in this one by the way. I guess it's better than a generic Ticketmaster ticket -- those are in the box, too -- so I guess stylistically it could be worse.

Stud or Dud? Brett Gardner doesn't bring much flash to this one ... but the game seemed like it was pretty good. With a game like this, this piece would be a good Torres autograph item ... but not with Gardner on it. Stud of a game, dud of a ticket.

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