A ticket to Michael Jordan’s NBA debut sold for $468,000
Jordan did pretty well for himself, becoming one of history’s greatest basketball players. And last month, Mike Cole did pretty well for himself, too. An unused ticket he had from that 1984 game sold for $468,000.Mike, 55, is very glad he hadn’t lost or thrown the ticket away in the last 38 years. It went with him from Illinois, where he was a student at Northwestern University, back to Bethesda, where he grew up.
After the game, Mike threw away his torn ticket stub and put the unused ticket in the folder holding his sports memories: a ticket to a 1983 Baltimore Orioles World Series game, Final Four tickets, Frozen Four tickets. It was an odd ticket to save, since nothing had really happened at the game.
, running clips on the Sports Machine,” he said. “It turned out I was not nearly as comfortable in front of the camera or as attractive as he was.”“I made a lot of great friends,” Mike said. “Perhaps I’m most fortunate I didn’t make them that early.”A lot of high school reunions have been on hold for a couple of years now, but here’s one taking place this summer: