Oh Manny

Manny Ramirez is back fans, this time in Japan with the Kochi Island Fighting Dogs, an independent league team, and as expected he is just Manny being Manny. I am not certain of his complete contract but the details that have been released:

His #99 jersey contains just his first name

He has use of a Mercedes Benz and chauffeur

Practices are optional

He gets his own hotel suite during road games

Unlimited sushi  

Who knows how long he will play this out, his last official at-bat was in 2011 and the last time he played any organized baseball was when he was a player-coach for the Iowa Cubs in 2014 but with perks like this I wouldn't complainl.

When A Bat Is Also A Cork

It is always fun to see the 2000 Pacific Invincible Many Ramirez corked bat card show up for sale. I don’t remember the last time it sold, but I remember it has shown up around $2,000 the last couple of times. It came up for auction again two weeks ago with a BIN of $2,000 when the auction ended without selling the seller relisted it but at $5,000, because everyone knows that when something does not sell you increase the price to draw in the buyers. As cool as the card is I would never pay this amount for a quirky relic card that includes a piece of cork out of a batting practice bat (What a Pacific rep once claimed).

Cork It!

So Manny Ramirez’s Pacific Invincible corked bat card has shown up on eBay again, this time with a $5,000 BIN/BO price. I remember when this card first showed up in 2000 and I thought it was insane going for like $500, shows how wrong I was on that one. This card is a legend, even if it is for the wrong reason, and it makes a bigger splash each time it appears.

 

I came across this Reggie Jackson Sweet Spot corked bat card for a $660 BIN price. I don’t remember hearing about this card before, is it something that I just missed, is it just showing up now or is it just a complete fake?

Even more questions come from a receipt that the seller included in the auction, there is a receipt from (or to) a wood shop dated March 2001 describing the card. Does this mean that the card was bought/sold in 2001 or does it mean that the wood shop made the corked piece that someone fraudulently inserted in to the card after it was pulled from a pack?

Does anyone know anything about this Reggie Jackson card?