In my Beatles signed record saga, I have an upcoming story about a relative that bought hundreds of tickets to a game in which a baseball record was going to be broken. All with the idea that this player would sign the tickets, they'd sell them, and split the profits. It didn't work out so well. Stay tuned for a future Autograph magazine for details.

It ties in to this unusual story.

Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Roy Halladay threw a perfect game against the Florida Marlins. For you people that don't know baseball, that's extremely rare. Only 20 have been thrown in the long history of baseball (it means nobody gets on base).

The Marlins thought of a way to make a little money out of this. They're putting tickets on sale, that fans can buy and keep as souvenirs.

The crowd was just over 25,000, and the team plans to count anyone that buys one of these souvenir tickets, as "paid attendance." (not sure how Major League baseball is going to feel about that move)

So far, 3,000 tickets were sold in the first four hours, ranging in price from $12 to $300 (I'm guessing on a game you aren't actually attending, you'd go with the cheap seats."

The Marlins are the last place team in the National League when it comes to attendance (averaging 16,764 a game). But, they're first in coming up with clever ideas to improve that number!