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Aaron Judge's 62nd Home Run Ball May Be Worth $2 Million
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October 5, 2022
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0:13Now PlayingMillion-dollar baseballs are raining down on fans like pennies from heaven, and the taxman isn’t far behind.
One of those balls, potentially worth $2 million, fell into a fan’s hands Tuesday night when New York Yankee Aaron Judge broke the American League single-season home run record. Both Yankees and Texas Rangers fans erupted as Judge belted out his 62nd, besting the 61-homer record set by Yankee legend Roger Maris in 1961.
For the lucky fan who caught the ball—identified by a local TV station as Cory Youmans—and anyone else snagging a record-setting ball this season, the Internal Revenue Service’s rules governing the immediate tax implications have all the clarity and precision of a Yogi Berra aphorism.
Chris Ivy, the director of sports auctions at Dallas-based Heritage Auction Galleries, was at the stadium Tuesday night when Youmans made the catch.
“He was asked last night what his plans were for the ball and he said ‘I haven’t really thought about it yet,” Ivy said in an interview Wednesday, and estimated that the baseball is worth at least $2 million.
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