Christian Lopez might end up wishing he kept that baseball after all. Lopez became more than a footnote to the spectacle of Derek Jeter getting his 3,000th hiton Saturday at Yankee Stadium by returning the milestone baseball to the New York Yankeesshortstop rather than cash it in for a likely six-figure payday. That touched off a debate still raging among fans days later: Would you have given the ball back or sold it to the highest bidder for a payday that was rumored as high as $250,000?
