Blue Jays fans looking to score a key piece of history from the team’s run to World Series now have the chance to do so — but it’ll cost a pretty penny.
The ball that George Springer pounded into the Rogers Centre stands during Game 7 of the ALCS officially is up for sale.
The ball has been put on the block via Goldin, which primarily deals with auctions of collectors’ items and has been featured on the Netflix show King of Collectibles: The Goldin Touch.
The starting price for the ball has been set at $10,000 US with a sole bid coming in at that amount as of Thursday afternoon. The auction runs until Dec. 13 at 10 p.m.
The site’s posting also says that proof of authenticity will be provided by Michael Angeletti, the Blue Jays fan who caught the ball at Rogers Centre. It also describes the ball as exhibiting “extensive wear, with white leather scuffing and surface abrasions throughout.”
Springer crushed the three-run homer in the seventh inning against Seattle Mariners pitcher Eduard Bazardo, giving the Jays a 4-3 lead that the team would hold on to and reach the World Series for the first time in 32 years.
Angeletti, who caught the ball in the left-field stands, went viral after his exuberant reaction to catching the ball and then later sharing that he predicted it would happen.
Springer has the memory
Springer spoke about his ALCS heroics against the Seattle Mariners during a Make-A-Wish Foundation event at a downtown Jack Astor’s on Wednesday calling it “hard to describe,” but said the at-bats leading up to his home run encapsulated the Blue Jays’ play all season long.
“I’m just happy I could come through in that moment,” he said. “But I think what gets lost in that whole moment is that if it wasn’t for the bats before me, it doesn’t happen. Guys got on base … we did what we needed to do as a team in that moment … That was a very big team moment for us, and we did it our way by getting a guy on, and getting a guy in.”
When the Blue Jays slugger was asked about potentially getting the ball from Angeletti, Springer said that the Etobicoke resident deserves to keep it.
“He caught it. He earned it. I have the memory, which is incredible,” Springer said.
The home run was just one many memorable moments for the Jays during their playoff run and part of Springer’s spectacular season.
On Wednesday, Springer was named both the Blue Jays player of the year and the most improved.
He was a near-unanimous choice for the bigger of the two awards in voting conducted by the Toronto chapter of the Baseball Writers Association of America, the results of which were announced on Wednesday.
And the most-improved player award, often given to a prospect on the rise, was a good fit as well given where Springer found himself following a dismal 2024 campaign.
Bounce-back season
In that sense, the beauty of Springer’s season is that it seemingly came out of nowhere, given his profound struggles in 2024 as he appeared to be in serious decline.
Instead, he was money for the Jays throughout, almost from the outset. Among all qualified hitters in MLB in 2025, Springer ranked second in on base percentage (.399), third in OPS (.959) and fourth in average (.309.)
Not only that, the 12-year veteran put up career-best numbers in both average and OBP, and by mid-season had worked his way back up to hitting leadoff in manager John Schneider’s lineup.
That performance carried into the Jays magical playoff run, where he had six doubles and four homers — the most notable of those a three-run blast in the bottom of the seventh in the Jays’ dramatic ALCS Game 7 win over the Mariners.
The focus will be to build off of that incredible season, in which the Jays won both the American League East and were tied for the best record in the AL.
–With files from Rob Longley and Mark Daniell