ESPN

Inside MLB's process of authenticating game-used items

When Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Roki Sasaki took the mound against the Chicago Cubs in Tokyo on Wednesday, he did so wearing an MLB debut patch on the left sleeve of his jersey. After his start, when ...
Yahoo! Sports

Inside the MLB Authentication Program: 'We put an identity on an item'

NEW YORK — Nestled beside each dugout at Citi Field is a chained-off area, no larger than a Manhattan apartment bedroom. Two inconspicuous individuals, both in black Nike polo shirts, sat there mostly ...
The Business Journals

Want real game-used keepsakes? There’s a hologram for that with MLB’s official authentication program

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. The push for an MLB Good Housekeeping seal started more ...
Star Tribune

Keeping it real: MLB authenticators ensure legitimacy of game-used memorabilia

Tell this to the fan who just caught a home run, and there might be a sagging of shoulders — that ball, which required acrobatics to catch and hand-to-hand combat with other fans to retain, doesn't ...
ESPN

Inside MLB's process of authenticating game-used items

The MLB authentication team had just delivered Game 3 items to a nearby warehouse, which is a secure storage area in the basement that "only five people" can access. The tamper-proof, self-destroying ...
ESPN

Inside MLB's process of authenticating game-used items

Dan Hajducky is a staff writer for ESPN. He has an MFA in creative writing from Fairfield University and played on the men's soccer teams at Fordham and Southern Connecticut State universities. The ...