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The bat tossed successful the aerial by a New Jersey Little Leaguer to observe a location tally that earned him a suspension aboriginal lifted by a judge sold Friday for astir $10,000 astatine auction.
All proceeds from the merchantability of 12-year-old Marco Rocco's signed bat volition beryllium donated to the programme helium plays for, Haddonfield Little League.
"Marco loves Little League and is blessed that helium is capable to springiness backmost to an enactment that helium is precise fond of," his father, Joe Rocco, said successful a text. "Little League was specified a large portion of Marco's beingness for a agelong time."
The auction by Goldin Auctions drew 68 bids. The winning bid was $9,882, and the sanction of the winning bidder was not announced.
Marco's bat flip connected July 16 successful the last of the Little League sectional tourney resulted successful an ejection, a one-game suspension and a ineligible fight.
The suspension would person kept him retired of the archetypal crippled of the authorities tournament.
Joe Rocco took Little League to tribunal and won an exigency impermanent restraining bid that allowed Marco to play successful the double-elimination tournament.
The incidental was besides commemorated with a pin disposable astatine the Little League World Series.
The bat flip besides drew attraction from large leaguers, who sided with the boy.
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