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Yonder Alonso Autographed Baseball - Official Major League )

Yonder Alonso Autographed Baseball - Official Major League ) Reds young star and possible future Rookie of the Year. First baseman and a top Reds prospect, Yonder Alonso, is moving up. Alonso was promoted on Monday from high Class A Sarasota to the Reds' Double-A affiliate at Carolina. "Our hope all along was to have him spend part of the summer in 'A' ball, get acclimated," Reds Minor League director Terry Reynolds said. "Even when at the beginning ... he has swung the bat very well. When the balls started dropping, his hits and RBIs started to come. We think he's ready for the next step. We're almost through the first half. The timing seemed to be right." The 22-year-old Alonso batted .302 with seven home runs and 37 RBIs for Sarasota with a .378 on-base percentage and .503 slugging percentage. Cincinnati's seventh overall selection in the 2008 First-Year Player Draft out of the University of Miami, Alonso signed a five-year, $4.55 million Major League contract in August that put him on the 40-man roster. MLB Authentication- This items come with the MLB Authentication hologram. The Major League Baseball Authentication Program has set the standard for sports memorabilia authentication. Major League Baseball is the first and only professional sports league to implement a program that easily distinguishes authenticated autographs and game-used memorabilia from other items on the market. This program - which combines the services of a third-party authenticator with a state-of-the-art hologram, a serial numbering system and an online verification process - guarantees the authenticity of its autographed and game-used items. Autographed and game-used items in the MLB Authentication Program are currently authenticated by individuals specifically trained to authenticate autograph signings and the removal of items that they personally witness as used in game. Items and their unique identification numbers are processed and posted on MLB.com, the program's official site, for easy reference by consumers. Once witnessed, every authenticated item is affixed with a tamper-proof hologram created by OpSec, U.S. to identify its authenticity.