Even after one sports memorabilia expert estimated Albert Pujols’s 2,000th career RBI baseball could be worth $25,000 at auction, the Detroit Tigers fan who recovered the home run ball said he won’t consider selling it.
“No,” Ely Hydes, 33, told the Free Press on Friday. “Because it should either be with Albert Pujols or in the Hall of Fame.”
Hydes, a third-year law student at Wayne State, said he hasn’t landed on a definite plan for what to do with the historic ball, after he garnered almost as much attention for his somewhat contentious negotiations with the Tigers and Los Angeles Angels, as Pujols did for his milestone feat.