Galarraga's blown perfect game Corvette up for auction

[Erich]

Wonder why he is selling it, or did he already sell it and somebody else is capitalizing off it?

http://www.mecum.com/auctions/lot_d...emv&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=HA0414-S211

 

[rsmath]

probably needs the benjamins. Can't feed a family on a minor league salary!

Blown perfect game, then blown cash, and now likely blown career since he hasn't sniffed much of the majors since the 2010 blown perfect game season.

 

[scotty216brs]

probably needs the benjamins. Can't feed a family on a minor league salary!

Blown perfect game, then blown cash, and now likely blown career since he hasn't sniffed much of the majors since the 2010 blown perfect game season.

Was thinking the same, he only made what about $2m during his time in the majors? Doubt he will ever make the bigs again, to be honest. Hell, if he never had a *perfect* game, no one would even know who the hell he was....

 

[LWMM]

Along with the personal and historical loss in that call being blown, Galarraga must have suffered a significant financial loss. Throwing a perfect game means that you will be able to sell autographs until you can no longer lift your hands. This will be true to a certain extent for Galarraga, but less so than it would have been. If you were to get an item signed by perfect game pitchers, who would you pay more for: Dallas Braden, or Armando Galarraga? (And if say you'd pay an equal amount, then who would you have sign first?)

Looking at Baseball Almanac, Galarraga made somewhere over 3.3 million dollars in his career (two years are unaccounted for, so let's say around 5 million). That can goe extremely quickly, especially if that's the bulk of the money you're going to make over your entire lifetime. The guy was signed when he was 16, and probably doesn't have many other career options open to him.

 

[jrinne]

He could do pitching lessons the rest of his life, charge $75 an hour and parents will pay that all day.

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