Former Sox pitcher becomes a Billionaire

by Randy Booth on Mar 1, 2007 10:20 PM EST in News

He couldn't even make a two million dollars a season in the big leagues, but now he's racking in a hell of a lot more than that.

Former Red Sox pitcher Matt White just found out he's the owner of $2 billion dollars worth of slate:

White, who has appeared in seven big league games in nine professional seasons, paid $50,000 three years ago to buy 50 acres of land from an elderly aunt who needed the money to pay for a nursing home.

While clearing out a couple acres to build a home, he discovered stone ledges in the ground, prompting him to have the property surveyed.

A geologist estimated there were 24 million tons of the stone on his land. The stone is being sold for upward of $100 per ton, meaning there's well over $2 billion worth of material used for sidewalks, patios and the like.

I feel bad for his aunt. I'm pretty sure she deserves at least a couple hundred million, don't you think?

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Re: Former Sox pitcher becomes a Billionaire

If he was kind enough to buy the land simply to help her with money (considering it was 3 years before he actually did anything with the land, I'm guesses this wasn't something he actually would have bought if his Aunt didn't need the money), I'm sure he'll give some of the profits back to her (you never know though)

by Realistic on Mar 2, 2007 9:10 AM EST reply actions