Braves win World Series: Joc Peterson’s pearl necklace will have home in Cooperstown at Baseball Hall of Fame

Duplicate pearl necklaces had been repeatedly noticed all through Truist Park this postseason after Atlanta Braves outfielder Joc Pederson started carrying an actual one in video games beginning on Sept. 29. Following the Braves’ World Sequence win over the Houston Astros, Pederson’s necklace is headed to the Baseball Corridor of Fame.

Pederson, 29, will reportedly don his signature necklace one final time throughout the Braves’ championship parade on Friday earlier than it makes its technique to Cooperstown, New York. The necklace turned a touchstone of Atlanta’s World Sequence run, with the staff promoting $5 replicas at Truist Park and Braves legend Dale Murphy carrying one whereas throwing a primary pitch throughout the Nationwide League Championship Sequence. 

“You take a look at the massive display screen in Atlanta and you bought all these, you realize, huge, tough, powerful guys they usually acquired pearls on,” Braves supervisor Brian Snitker advised Sports Illustrated. “And all the women, like, went of their jewellery containers and acquired their pearls out. So, shoot, I am wonderful with it.”

The necklace headed to Cooperstown is not the unique, nevertheless. Pederson’s first necklace snapped throughout Sport 3 of the World Sequence, forcing his jeweler to fly to Atlanta with a alternative the next day. The Braves then received two of their subsequent three video games to say their first World Sequence since 1995. 

“I wish to do one thing actually totally different,” Pederson — a former All-Star who received the 2020 World Sequence with the Los Angeles Dodgers — texted his jeweler, per SI. “I wish to make a pleasant style assertion. And I am occupied with pearls.”

Due to the Braves’ World Sequence win, Pederson’s necklace went from a style assertion to baseball historical past. 

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