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"textContent": "<p>Before losing him to a hamstring injury last month, signing Munetaka Murakami clearly paid off for the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https://chicago.suntimes.com/white-sox\" >White Sox</a>.</p><p>Now, a 9-year-old from Arizona is also reaping the benefits.</p><p>Mason Deane, who collects trading cards, lucked into a box of Topps cards in April that contained a one-of-one redemption for a Murakami autographed rookie card, according to a story from <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/valley/arizona-9-year-old-sells-rare-baseball-card-for-nearly-75000-after-lucky-pack-pull-chicago-white-sox-murakami/75-818bd7c2-9456-4766-ac4e-5279b5bde521\" target=\"_blank\" ><u>Arizona television station KPNX.</u></a></p><p>\"It's something that's fun to do with your son. We have what we call a trading business, and we just buy and sell baseball cards,\" Mason’s father Bradley told KPNX.</p><p>\"We normally just look around, and if I feel lucky, we get a pack,\" Mason added.</p><p>\"I was like, 'This is crazy.' I'd never heard of a card like that,\" he said.</p><p>The family decided to put the card up for auction and sold it for $75,000.</p><p>\"I was like, 'Oh, wow. That's a lot.' I was just surprised,\" Mason said.</p><p>Mason wanted to use the money to buy more cards. Bradley overrode his son’s wishes and put the cash in a college fund.</p><p>The family intends to travel to Chicago next month to meet Murakami and take in a Sox game at Rate Field.</p><p>\"That's probably the best card I'm gonna get,\" Mason said.</p><div class=\"PageListL\" data-module data-hide-authors=\"true\" data-hide-categories=\"true\" data-hide-dates=\"true\" data-show-loadmore=\"true\" ><a class=\"AnchorLink\" id=\"list-4a0005\" name=\"list-4a0005\"></a><div class=\"PageList-header\" > <div class=\"PageList-header-title-wrap\" > <div class=\"PageList-header-title\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https://chicago.suntimes.com/white-sox\" target=\"{items=[{timestamp=1782490647000, type=Image, authors=[{authorPageUrl=https://chicago.suntimes.com/authors/jeff-agrest, media=[{alt=11-20-stewart-agrest-2-0.jpg, ampLink=null, _styledTemplate=null, _template=/image/Image.hbs, image={src=https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/aa/7e/6765027c315652b7137576f04898/11-20-stewart-agrest-2-0.jpg, width=512, height=512}, narrowImage={src=https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/aa/7e/6765027c315652b7137576f04898/11-20-stewart-agrest-2-0.jpg, width=512, height=512}}], name=[{items=[Jeff Agrest]}], ampLink=null, _styledTemplate=null, _template=/author/byline/AuthorByline.hbs, bio=[{items=[Jeff Agrest is deputy sports editor at the Chicago Sun-Times.]}], jobTitle=[{items=[Deputy sports editor]}]}], publishDate=June 26, 2026 11:17 AM, url=https://chicago.suntimes.com/white-sox/2026/06/26/white-sox-recall-righty-david-sandlin-for-start-tonight-option-lefty-joe-rock-to-charlotte, wordCount=192, _styledTemplate=null, imageAlignment=null, categoryUrl=https://chicago.suntimes.com/white-sox, isFeatured=false, category=[{items=[White Sox]}], target=null, title=White Sox recall righty David Sandlin for Friday night start, option lefty Joe Rock to Charlotte, primaryMediaType=null, description=[{items=[This is Sandlin’s second tour with the Sox this season. 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