August 8th, 2007 at 12:49 am
Barry Bonds hit the record 756th home run yesterday.
The big question is — how much will that ball be worth? I would probably like to know who caught it too.
ESPN wrote an interesting article of what will factor into how much the ball is worth. Mark McGwire’s 70th home run ball fetched $3 million.
Personally, I feel that Hank Aaron is the true home run king and Barry Bonds’ record has a slight question mark over it with the steroids issue. We will never know will we, as he was lucky enough to never get caught.
So what will you do if you were lucky enough to catch that prized baseball?
For me, I’ll definitely sell it immediately as the ball’s price will be devalued with every extra home run Barry Bonds hits. I won’t take anything less than $3 million and will probably sell it at an auction (where the price often inflates) instead of selling it at a fixed price. Then I’ll give some of it to my family, my wife’s family, leave about $500,000 for J and myself to spend (including buying that fabulous H2 Hummer that I love), put some of it into investments and leave the rest in the bank to earn interest.
6 Responses to “Barry Bonds 756 Home Run”
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MC said: @ 1:11 pm
August 8th, 2007
To me, Hank Aaron and Roger Maris both still have their records.
sir jorge said: @ 5:59 pm
August 8th, 2007
I missed this one; I was too busy watching the Orioles get beat down bad by The Mariners.
kailani said: @ 8:21 pm
August 8th, 2007
I would sell it on ebay. With what I make from it, I should just about be debt free. hee hee
thethinker said: @ 1:37 am
August 10th, 2007
I’ve already exhausted this topic, both on my blog and to anyone who will listen. If I started to write what I think of Barry Bonds in this comment box, I’m sure that I’d run out of space.
6000 said: @ 7:05 am
August 10th, 2007
You say that whoever caught it will be an “instant multi millionaire”, but link in the same paragraph to an article in which an expert values it between $300,000 and $500,000?!?
Nice.
The Foo said: @ 11:18 am
August 13th, 2007
6000: You’re right, it didn’t make any sense to put that sentence in there with that link. Good catch… I took the sentence out.