{"id":29664,"date":"2025-08-30T05:01:36","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T09:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/suspended-little-leaguers-bat-reaches-10k-in-charity-auction\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T05:01:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T09:01:36","slug":"suspended-little-leaguers-bat-reaches-10k-in-charity-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/mlb\/suspended-little-leaguers-bat-reaches-10k-in-charity-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspended Little Leaguer&#8217;s Bat Reaches $10K in Charity Auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Young Player&#8217;s Home Run Bat Fetches Surprising Price at Auction<\/h2>\n\nA baseball bat tossed in the air by a young New Jersey player, in celebration of a home run that initially earned him a suspension, was sold for nearly $10,000 at auction on Friday.\n\nThe sale of the bat, signed by 12-year-old Marco Rocco, generated great anticipation. All proceeds will go to the Haddonfield Little League youth baseball league, where the young athlete plays.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Marco loves Little League and is happy to be able to give back to an organization he appreciates very much. Little League was a very important part of Marco&#8217;s life for a long time.<\/p><cite>Joe Rocco, Marco&#8217;s father<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nThe auction, conducted by Goldin Auctions, received a total of 68 bids. The winning bid, which reached $9,882, did not reveal the bidder&#8217;s name.\n\nMarco&#8217;s bat flip on July 16, during the Little League sectional tournament final, resulted in his ejection, a one-game suspension, and a legal battle.\n\nThe suspension would have prevented the young player from participating in the first game of the state tournament.\n\nMarco&#8217;s father, Joe Rocco, took the case to court and obtained an emergency temporary restraining order that allowed his son to play in the double-elimination tournament.\n\nThe incident was also commemorated with a pin available at the Little League World Series.\n\nThe bat gesture also caught the attention of major league players, who expressed their support for the young athlete.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young Player&#8217;s Home Run Bat Fetches Surprising Price at Auction A baseball bat tossed in the air by a young New Jersey player, in celebration of a home run that initially earned him a suspension, was sold for nearly $10,000 at auction on Friday. The sale of the bat, signed by 12-year-old Marco Rocco, generated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[2021,3830,8040,110],"class_list":{"0":"post-29664","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-auction","9":"tag-bat-flip","10":"tag-little-league","11":"tag-suspension"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}