{"id":21704,"date":"2026-09-14T19:46:52","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T19:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/?p=21704"},"modified":"2026-09-14T19:46:52","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T19:46:52","slug":"a-seattle-teen-turned-a-free-baseball-card-into-20100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/14\/a-seattle-teen-turned-a-free-baseball-card-into-20100\/","title":{"rendered":"A Seattle Teen Turned a Free Baseball Card Into $20,100"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Abby, a 13-year-old from Poulsbo, Washington, went to a Seattle Mariners baseball game expecting nothing more than a fun night. She left with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/business-news\/collectibles-are-crashing-whiskey-rolexes-trading-cards\/468532\" id=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/business-news\/collectibles-are-crashing-whiskey-rolexes-trading-cards\/468532\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trading card<\/a> worth $20,100, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/sports\/mariners\/1-of-1-mariners-jimothy-card-up-to-15000-in-ebay-auction\/\" id=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/sports\/mariners\/1-of-1-mariners-jimothy-card-up-to-15000-in-ebay-auction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Seattle Times <\/a>reports.<\/p>\n<p>The card featured Jimothy, a raccoon with an unusually short, round shape who went viral this summer after videos of him wandering a Seattle neighborhood spread online. In his honor, the team gave out Jimothy cards to the first 20,000 fans through the gate.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-instagram wp-block-embed-instagram\"\/>\n<p>Hidden in those 20,000 was a single one-of-one gold version, and Abby got it. As soon as word spread around the stadium, fans approached with cash in hand. A Mariners staffer even asked if the family would sell it to help get the card to starting pitcher George Kirby. They held onto it.<\/p>\n<p>Abby\u2019s family put the card up on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/science-technology\/ebay-101\/169822\" id=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/science-technology\/ebay-101\/169822\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">eBay<\/a>, drew more than 100 bids and closed at $20,100. \u201cEvery dime of this is going into Abby\u2019s college fund,\u201d her mom, Jessie Nino, said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Abby, a 13-year-old from Poulsbo, Washington, went to a Seattle Mariners baseball game expecting nothing more than a fun night. She left with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/business-news\/collectibles-are-crashing-whiskey-rolexes-trading-cards\/468532\" id=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/business-news\/collectibles-are-crashing-whiskey-rolexes-trading-cards\/468532\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trading card<\/a> worth $20,100, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/sports\/mariners\/1-of-1-mariners-jimothy-card-up-to-15000-in-ebay-auction\/\" id=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/sports\/mariners\/1-of-1-mariners-jimothy-card-up-to-15000-in-ebay-auction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Seattle Times <\/a>reports.<\/p>\n<p>The card featured Jimothy, a raccoon with an unusually short, round shape who went viral this summer after videos of him wandering a Seattle neighborhood spread online. In his honor, the team gave out Jimothy cards to the first 20,000 fans through the gate.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-instagram wp-block-embed-instagram\"\/>\n<p>Hidden in those 20,000 was a single one-of-one gold version, and Abby got it. As soon as word spread around the stadium, fans approached with cash in hand. A Mariners staffer even asked if the family would sell it to help get the card to starting pitcher George Kirby. They held onto it.<\/p>\n<p>Abby\u2019s family put the card up on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/science-technology\/ebay-101\/169822\" id=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/science-technology\/ebay-101\/169822\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">eBay<\/a>, drew more than 100 bids and closed at $20,100. \u201cEvery dime of this is going into Abby\u2019s college fund,\u201d her mom, Jessie Nino, said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/business-news\/a-13-year-old-turned-a-free-trading-card-of-a-viral-racoon-into-20100-every-dime-is-going-to-her-college-fund\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abby, a 13-year-old from Poulsbo, Washington, went to a Seattle Mariners baseball game expecting nothing more than a fun night. She left with a trading card worth $20,100, the Seattle Times reports. The card featured Jimothy, a raccoon with an unusually short, round shape who went viral this summer after videos of him wandering a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":21705,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/jimothy-viral-trading-card-0926_g2289249431.jpg?resize=1024,683","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21706,"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21704\/revisions\/21706"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}