{"id":186254,"date":"2025-08-30T03:19:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T03:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/186254\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T03:19:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T03:19:12","slug":"suspended-little-leaguers-bat-sells-for-10000-at-auction-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/186254\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspended Little Leaguer\u2019s bat sells for $10,000 at auction \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What to Know<\/p>\n<ul class=\"what-to-know__list\">\n<li class=\"what-to-know__item\">The bat tossed in the air by a New Jersey Little Leaguer to celebrate a home run that earned him a suspension later lifted by a judge has sold for nearly $10,000 at auction.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li class=\"what-to-know__item\">All proceeds from the sale of 12-year-old Marco Rocco\u2019s signed bat will be donated to the program he plays for, Haddonfield Little League. The auction drew 68 bids.<\/li>\n<li class=\"what-to-know__item\">Marco\u2019s bat flip on July 16 in the final of the Little League sectional tournament resulted in an ejection, a one-game suspension and a legal fight. But his father took Little League to court and won an emergency temporary restraining order that allowed Marco to play.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/news\/local\/viral-bat-flip-haddonfield-auction\/4257249\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/news\/local\/viral-bat-flip-haddonfield-auction\/4257249\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">bat tossed in the air by a New Jersey Little Leaguer<\/a> to celebrate a home run that earned him a suspension later lifted by a judge sold Friday for nearly $10,000 at auction.<\/p>\n<p>All proceeds from the sale of 12-year-old Marco Rocco\u2019s signed bat will be donated to the program he plays for, Haddonfield Little League.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMarco loves Little League and is happy that he is able to give back to an organization that he is very fond of,\u201d his father, Joe Rocco, said in a text message. \u201cLittle League was such a big part of Marco&#8217;s life for a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The auction by Goldin Auctions drew 68 bids. The winning bid was $9,882, and the name of the winning bidder was not announced.<\/p>\n<p>Marco&#8217;s bat flip on July 16 in the final of the Little League sectional tournament resulted in an ejection, a one-game suspension and a legal fight.<\/p>\n<p>The suspension would have kept him out of the first game of the state tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Rocco took Little League to court and won\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/news\/national-international\/new-jersey-little-leaguer-bat-flip-celebration-suspended\/4241203\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">an emergency temporary restraining order<\/a>\u00a0that allowed Marco to play in the double-elimination tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The incident was also commemorated with a pin available at the Little League World Series.<\/p>\n<p>The bat flip also\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/news\/sports\/mlb\/mlb-players-react-new-jersey-little-league-bat-flip-suspension\/4242629\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">drew attention from major leaguers<\/a>, who sided with the boy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What to Know The bat tossed in the air by a New Jersey Little Leaguer to celebrate a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":186255,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,401,1448,2830,1311,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-186254","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-new-jersey","10":"tag-pa","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115115561101414628","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}