Yankees, bank reward kids who return found playoff tickets
Oct. 1, 2004
SportsLine.com wire reports
SUMMIT, N.J. -- Talk about temptation: box-seat tickets for New York Yankees playoff games lying on the street.
Not for these nine youngsters. They just gave the tickets to the police.
"It's a real tribute to their honesty and total integrity," Yankees owner George Steinbrenner said Friday in a statement through spokesman Howard Rubenstein.
The tickets belonged to Wachovia bank. Only four of 70 tickets in a package worth $20,000 that apparently fell off a delivery truck Monday are still missing, Wachovia bank spokeswoman Fran Durst said.
"I am absolutely amazed by their honesty," Durst said. "What a temptation, just to take these tickets and go to the game. But they did the right thing."
Since the tickets -- some worth $2,600 each -- are for bank customers, the bank will treat the boys and their parents to a New Jersey Nets game Dec. 10 against New Orleans from its luxury box at the Continental Airlines Arena, Durst said.
The Yankees also gave the boys and their parents tickets to Thursday night's 6-4 win over the Minnesota Twins that captured the AL East title. The boys were honored before the game at Summit City Hall. They also will be sent Yankee memorabilia, Rubenstein said.
"I was very happy that they were rewarded," Corey's mother, Elizabeth Platt, said Friday. "But I'm a little nervous ... that the next time he does something right and doesn't get this reaction, he might not do the right thing the third time."
Now that's confidence in your child! I guess you won't be holding him to a high standard now. And if he goes on a killing spree, well, that's not your fault, or his fault, that the city of New York didn't reward him enough.
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