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30 for 30: Jordan Rides the Bus - Jordan Retires from NBA to play baseball

Michael Jordan stunned the Bulls and the NBA when he announced his retirement in 1993. In the fall of 1993, in his prime and at the summit of the sports world, Michael Jordan walked away from pro basketball. After leading the Dream Team to an Olympic gold medal in 1992 and taking the Bulls to their third consecutive NBA championship the following year, Jordan was jolted by the murder of his father. Was it the brutal loss of such an anchor in his life that caused the world’s most famous athlete to rekindle a childhood ambition by playing baseball? Or some feeling that he had nothing left to prove or conquer in basketball? Or something deeper and perhaps not yet understood? Ron Shelton, a former minor leaguer who brought his experiences to life in the classic movie “Bull Durham,” will revisit Jordan’s short career in the minor leagues and explore the motivations that drove the world’s most competitive athlete to play a new sport in the relative obscurity of Birmingham, Alabama, for a young manager named Terry Francona.

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One-of-a-kind 2010 rookie card could fetch $50,000

It wasn’t found in a rusty coffee can, unearthed from some old baseball fan’s backyard. It wasn’t accidentally discovered in an attic or in a cardboard box behind some wooden tennis racquets in a closet.

…/ Huggins and Scott Auctions on Wednesday opened the bidding on the 2010 Strasburg Bowman Prospect autographed rookie card red parallel. It’s a one of one, and as the item description puts it, “perhaps the most coveted modern insert card ever produced.” With just less than two weeks left before the auction ends, the current bid is at $10,000. “From talking to different people who are way more knowledgeable than I am in the signing card business, they’re telling me $20,000 to $50,000,” said Bill Huggins, President of Huggins and Scott Auctions. “There’s never been anything like this before. The last thing I can remember, and I’ve done this for 31 years, is Shaquille O’Neal in 1992-93 as far as the card industry goes, somebody who’s never played and everybody is paying a ton of money for what his future will be.” Strasburg’s present is his first start against the Marlins Friday at Sun Life Stadium. This may be the only chance for South Florida baseball fans to see him as a rookie. The Nationals plan to shut…

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