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Former MLB player sells boat to legendary rock band's guitarist

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| Thursday, October 9, 2025 9:59 a.m.
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Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready rocks the sold-out PPG Paints Arena crowd on May 16, 2025, the first of two sold-out shows.

A former Philadelphia Phillies star recently sold his boat to the guitarist for an iconic grunge band.

Jimmy Rollins, the National League MVP in 2007, won a Mastercraft X24 speedboat by draining a hole-in-one in July at the American Century Championship in Nevada.

But Rollins, who lives in California, didn’t have much use for the boat, which is valued at $325,000.

Mastercraft, the boat’s manufacturer, found out Rollins was selling the boat, and connected them with Pearl Jam’s singer Eddie Vedder, who was helping guitarist Mike McCready find a boat.

“I sold it to him with no hours and no water on it,” Rollins told the Philadelphia Inquirer. “But I’m sure that has changed already.”

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Rollins last played in the majors in 2016 and now serves as an analyst for TBS.

“They told me and I was like, ‘That’s a pretty damn cool story,’” Rollins said.


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