What is REALLY... REAL?
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Staten Island, NY Posted: 8/10/2016 1:00:00 AM
What makes some ordinary objects better than other ones?
A new baseball costs about $10, but if a famous baseball player even touches the ball, the price goes up. If the same baseball player takes it out of the box, signs it, then puts it back in the box, the price goes up even more, because the signature proves they touched it. Take to another level, even if they don't "touch" the ball, but simply hit it with their bat, the price goes up even more, especially if it was an important home run.
The funny thing about it is that in each and every case, all you really have is a the same $10 baseball, and some kind of magical feeling that comes with knowing the baseball is somehow transformed from being ordinary, to something completely different and valuable, simply because you believe that it's really been touched by, signed by, or hit by somebody special.
It's not easy to describe what makes that transformed baseball something special. If I told you that the ball was touched, hit, or signed by Hank Aaron or Mickey Mantle... and it really wasn't, is it any less valuable? Technically, as long as I keep my story, and can convince you that it's "Real", you'll still have the feeling that it was truly... Real.
So in a nutshell, what I'm hoping to do here is give people some perspective on the value people put on ordinary objects. In today's video I show off my hand signed Hank Aaron baseball. I've had that baseball for over 20 years. It's special to me, not because it was signed by a famous baseball player, but because my mother gave it to me. It would be special to me even if he didn't sign it, so although it has more value to me than a ball I can buy in Walmart, it has a value that isn't monetary.
Joe Crescenzi, Founder
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