11-Year-Old Rejects Pirates' Offer For Rare Paul Skenes Card
11-Year-Old Rejects Pirates’ Offer For Rare 1 Of 1 Paul Skenes Baseball Card
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The 11-year-old who scored the rare rookie card of Paul Skenes has turned down a trade offer from the Pittsburgh Pirates and has decided to auction the card off.
The card features a patch of Skenes’ jersey as well as his signature and it is the only one of its kind to exist.
The Pirates had put together a package that included 30 years’ worth of season tickets behind home plate at PNC Park, a meet & greet with Skenes, and two Paul Skenes signed jerseys.
Skenes’ girlfriend, LSU gymnast and influencer Livvy Dunne, also offered the card’s owner the opportunity to take in a game with her in a luxury suite at the ballpark during one of Skenes’ starts.
While the 11-year-old wrote in a journal entry shared by Topps that nabbing the card was a “dream come true,” that dream apparently did not include spending the next three decades attending games at PNC Park.
The team posted on X after the decision that it was “bummed” but offered to have the fan at a game sometime during the 2025 season.
