What price will Barry Bonds 756th home run bring at auction?”
NEW YORK – The ball Barry Bonds hit for his record-breaking 756th home run will be branded with an asterisk and sent to the Baseball Hall of Fame, its owner said Wednesday. Ecko, whom Bonds called “an idiot” last week, had the winning bid Sept. 15 in the online auction for the ball that Bonds hit Aug. 7 to break Hank Aaron’s record of 755 home runs. The final selling price was $752,467, well above most predictions that assumed Bonds’ status as a lightning rod for the steroids debate in baseball would depress the value. Hall of Fame president Dale Petroskey, also interviewed on the show, said accepting the ball did not mean the Hall endorses the viewpoint that Barry Bonds used drugs.
Will Bonds’ 756th home run ball break records? SAN FRANCISCO – Barry Bonds may break Hank Aaron’s home run record this season, but several sports memorabilia experts doubt the slugger’s 756th homer ball will break records at auction houses. Heritage Auction Galleries said Sunday it would pay $1 million for the baseball Bonds is expected to hit this summer to establish a new career home run record. But executives acknowledged that the company was willing to part with seven figures in part because of all the publicity surrounding the milestone. “We want press on it, and we want the news out there,” Chris Ivy, director of sports auctions for Heritage, said Monday.
