Post Your Stolen Or Lost Items!!!!

[metsbats]

Hodges bat in route from Colorado to NY is found.

It was delivered today (USPS Priority mail 8 day special i guess).

Thanks
David

[BMH]

Alright, we have one missing or should I say MLB does...

Good Morning America received the Mother's Day bats of Arod and Jeter. Both have been hit with and were signed. Anyway after the story they were sent back to MLB but only the Arod bat showed up. So if anyone spots a pink Jeter bat, signed and having ball marks on any site please let me know. I can't really say it was stolen but it is lost.

[The Lumber Company]

Hello.
I just sent a package with three bats to someone in the Pittsburgh area. The package was missing an awesome Willie Stargell bat.....it was already graded by everyone. I am trying to get scans of the COA's.....as soon as I get them I will let everyone know more details.
Thanks for any help....I was hoping that if it turned up at the national that someone could notify me.

It has the markings of more of a 65-68 but was graded as a 1971 due to a unique order.
Thanks,
Marty Wallach
813-416-0434

[JCC1968]

Hi

Just wondering, I wanted Jim Leyritz to confirm the cleats I have were his used in the 1999 World Series. He said he will not sign anything that was stolen from him. He also said he wanted the cleats back. This brings up several questions:

1) who leagally owes the cleats?

2) does he was any legal standpoint on the cleats?


3) Has this happened to anyone else?


In retrospect. Hollywood Rick has had them for three years. Mrs. Leyritz has signed a COA with them. They had been up on his website. what do you guys think?

Jason

[David]

If the were stolen from him, they are his not yours. You can't legally purchase and own items that are stolen.

However, you don't know that they were stolen. Just because he says she stole them, doesn't automatically prove it true. In a marital property marriage, the wife owns the stuff as much as the husband, and she may or may not have assumed legal ownership after breakup.

If they were stolen, you would have legal right to get your money back.

[David]

You should try and contact the wife, as she may offer a different version of the events, possibly with a divorce lawyer to back it up.

[yanks12025]

Did this happen or are you just asking to find what you could do if it ever happened. If it did happen like you are saying he would need to show proof that they were stolen, and if he did then their his.

[David]

One last note-- and I should say I have no opinion on the ownership of your items, and am offering no opinion on the coach--, but I once had a player's lawyer contact me to say an expensive item I won at auction was stolen from the player and I should return it. After minimal research by the auction house president, records showed that the item was not only never stolen from the player, but the player never owned it. I gave these facts to the lawyer, and he never returned message. So I learned that just because someone official claims something was stolen, doesn't automatically mean it was stolen.

[David]

I agree with Yanks. Even if they are stolen, he has to have proof of it. Legal recovery of items involves more than pointing at random things on the street and saying "That was stolen from me." You have to provide proof.

[David]

One last little tidbit to ponder about vintage equipment, like jerseys, pants, shoes, equipment bag. Was a player ever the owner of the items? Or were they always owned by the team? If a player took home his equipment bag after the season, did he have legal right to the bag? How much of an old time player's stuff was taken without permission from his employer? Likely quite a bit.