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| 2013 Topps Museum Collection sketch card(left) and 2013 Bowman Chrome Cream of the Crop Mini Superfractor. |
By Ko Dong-hwan
Baseball products for fans of Ryu Hyun-jin are being sold fast online.
eBay Korea reported on Aug. 6 that in July alone, the total Ryu products registered the world's largest online trade market ebay (www.ebay.com) counted 480 types, a 35 percent increase from the previous month.
Ryu products are diverse in their types, including baseballs with Ryu's signature, tickets for past games with Ryu as starter, Ryu baseball cards, and jerseys and caps with Ryu's back number "99" stitched.
Product type that accounts for most of the Ryu products is baseball cards, which comprise 380 different ones available at eBay.
While they are cheap - average Joe baseball cards are priced as low as $0.99 - there is another class of cards that cranked up a notch big time, like 2013 Topps Museum Collection sketch card and 2013 Bowman Chrome Cream of the Crop Mini Superfractor, both available for a whopping $1,500, the most expensive among Ryu products.
Baseballs with Ryu's original signature are available at a "buy-it-now" price of $149.
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At another Korean online market, "auction" (www.auction.co.kr), are also beached with some 330 Ryu products.
Na Young-ho, director of international trade at eBay Korea, said, "You see Ryu doing so great in his games with ten winning games in his first season in the Major League, and also people going nuts about his products, signature souvenirs and all, and it's easy to realize how popular Ryu has become."
