Sports Collectors Digest

Jarrod Washburn the collector

A couple years into his professional baseball career, Jarrod Washburn had an idea.

He wanted to start collecting pieces of memorabilia that were special to him.

“I really enjoyed collecting either bats from opposing hitters that I respected and played against and pitchers that I’d go up against,” said Washburn, who has at least one of his jerseys from every team he played for during his 12 years in the majors. “I have a pretty extensive collection of autograph balls and bats from

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