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Tuesday, July 01, 2008
Asterisk or not, the ball Barry Bonds launched for his record-breaking 756th home run won’t land in the Hall of Fame.
The Hall said Tuesday recent talks with fashion designer Marc Ecko, who bought the souvenir for more than $750,000 last September, had “unfortunately reached an impasse.”
“The owner’s previous commitment to unconditionally donate the baseball has changed to a loan. As a result, the Hall of Fame will not be able to accept the baseball,” the Hall said in a statement.
I can’t remember which side I argued passionately for, but I’m pretty sure “The Hall agrees to the asterisk and still doesn’t get the ball” wasn’t it.
Monty
Posted: July 01, 2008 at 06:46 PM | 16 comment(s)
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I noted that in the Chacon/Wade thread.
When I submitted the article, the Hall was saying "We're not getting the ball because Ecko is insisting on it being a loan". See the quoted excerpt, which describes the state of things as of a few hours ago.
Too bad Bonds doesn't have Pete Rose's sense of humor about things like this. Rose will gladly sign the Dowd Report for his usual autograph price.
Rose would smother an infant with a pillow and sign it for an extra $50.
My bad then. I figured since the title of the entry was "day ends with...ball in Cooperstown" that that was the status when posted.
It's like if I found a long lost Picasso in my attic, painted a giant erect wang over it, and then donated it to a museum only after making them promise that they wouldn't try to erase or cover up my "addition" in any way.
It's pure childishness.
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