Digital Baseball

The bull market in stocks might be dead

But you can always find some upside action if you look hard enough

Today’s big winner is a baseball card

Nicknamed the “Flying Dutchman,” Wagner was the National League batting champion in eight of his 21 seasons and finished his career with a lifetime .329 average. He retired in 1917 with more hits, runs, RBIs, doubles, triples steals than any National League player.

In 1991 Wayne Gretzky and Bruce McNall paid $451,000 for the card pictured above. In 1996 it changed hands for $640,000. A few years later the card sold for approximately $1.265 million, including buyers premium.

The card just changed hands again...for $2.3 million.

But Honus represents the past.

Bob Bowman is baseball’s future...and its MVP.

Bob Bowman

President, CEO, MLB Advanced Media
Some online players work in content, some are specialists in fantasy or e-commerce. Many of the larger sites combine a couple of these capabilities. But Bowman and MLBAM can claim a sizable foothold in all of the above areas, as well as a growing stable of outside development work. Fervently driven about the company and its position among baseball fans, Bowman’s ability to execute the original, collective MLBAM vision for a group of often parochial team owners — and then continue to build upon it — cannot be overstated. 20 Most Influential/Street & Smith’s

The CEO of MLB Advanced Media was once an up and comer on Wall Street. He joined Goldman Sachs fresh out of the Wharton Business School but burnished his legend as the youngest Treasurer in the history of the State of Michigan back in the 1980’s. 

He was credited for steering Michigan’s pension fund to outsized returns in the 1980’s. although the bull market certainly might have helped. He was also once known as a stockpicker and achieved some notoriety for championing the purchase of Digital Equipment Corporation which was The Apple of its day.  Bowman bio

Let the sellers have their way with this market today...and spend a little time at the MLB site.

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