Barry Bond's Balls....

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Comcast.net said:
SAN FRANCISCO - Barry Bonds' record-breaking 756th home run ball was auctioned Saturday for $752,467, well more than the estimates by memorabilia experts.

Home run No. 755, the ball that tied the record, went for $186,750, including the bid and fee, according to Sotheby's/SCP Auctions.

Both final prices included the winning bid plus a 20 percent buyer's fee, according to the auction houses handling the sale.

Bonds broke Aaron's record of 755 with a shot into the right-center field seats on Aug. 7 against the Washington Nationals in San Francisco.

Matt Murphy, a 21-year-old construction supervisor from New York, emerged from a scuffle with the record-breaking ball after paying $100 for a $12 ticket to the game during a layover on his way to Australia.

"I had hoped to keep the ball, but when I determined that was not the best strategy at this stage of my life, this definitely was the right decision," Murphy said in a statement released after the sale. "It is an honor to be a part of baseball history and I wish the new owner well with whatever they elect to do with the ball."

Experts had predicted the ball that tied Hank Aaron's home run record would fetch about $200,000, and that the record-breaker would be sold for least $500,000.

"I feel like I did the right thing with it," said Adam Hughes, 34, a plumber from La Jolla who came up with No. 755 in the left-center field seats in San Diego on Aug. 4.

Hughes said that after taxes and auction house fees, he expects to take home about $90,000 from the sale. He said he would probably invest some of the money and use some of it to help out a cousin who just started college. He might also go on the cruise, he said.

The buyers weren't identified.
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Amazing on who would pay that much for a stupid ball that involved drugs to break the record... :3d_frown:
 
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I was hoping the ball would have been thrown back onto the field. Unfortunately, the sport is about money and ethics are not important. It's ashame Aaron's record had to be broken like this. I also feel the same way about Roger Maris's record being broken by McGwire.
 
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csnow said:
I was hoping the ball would have been thrown back onto the field. Unfortunately, the sport is about money and ethics are not important. It's ashame Aaron's record had to be broken like this. I also feel the same way about Roger Maris's record being broken by McGwire.
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McGwire ever found guilty of doping charges?
 
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csnow said:
Please.... are you going to say that you honestly believe that he has not juiced?
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I knew he was under investigation, but never really heard the outcome. He does seem supernatural so I couldn't say he wasn't.
 
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McGuire was not found guilty because it wasn't illegal.

The issue is the over the counter product that he was taking converts to steriods in the body, but it's 100% legal...
 
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Mcgwire's drug is now banned from baseball as well, but wasn't at the time he took it. He admitted taking it!

Bonds (like McGwire) was a beast, and probably one of the all time greatest all around players to ever play the game BEFORE he ever took steroids, which has not been proven. I believe he took them, but I don't believe he has taken them through his whole career as some of you people do. The shame is that he took them, and ruined his name forever. He would have been very close to the record without them. He hit plenty of home runs as a pencil thin kid. What he took was to help him return from injury quicker, not to give him home run power that he lacked.

But ya......Why in the hell would you want to spend that much money on a baseball?
 
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