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Jeter 3,000th Hit Fan Gets Tax-Pay, Loan Help From Modell’s
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The fan who caught Derek Jeter’s home-run ball that gave him 3,000 career hits is getting help paying student loans and possible tax bills from one of the New York Yankees’ chief sponsors.
Modell’s Sporting Goods Inc., the official sporting goods partner of the Major League Baseball team, said it would donate 5 percent of its Yankees merchandise sales from today through July 19 to Christian Lopez, a 23-year-old mobile-phone salesman who caught the ball and returned it to Jeter, the club’s shortstop and captain.