You don't have the money to toss, like, $800,000 at Barry Bonds' record-breaking home run ball. Very few of us do. But that doesn't mean we won't have a say in just what happens to the ball now that it's been purchased. Why? Because the newly minted owner, Marc Ecko (yes, the designer of the Ecko clothing line you can lesuirely peruse at any local T.J. Maxx), is offering fans the chance to decide the ball's fate through our most egalitarian of processes: the vote!
Ecko is offering three choices: Donate it as is to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y.; brand it with an asterisk and donate it to the Hall of Fame; or put it on a rocket and blast it into space.You can vote at Vote756.com until Tuesday, September 25. Send the ball to the moon? Put it in the Hall of Fame? Throw an asterisk on that bad boy? What would you do to it?
"I wanted the ball to democratize the ball and to give the ball to the people, to give the ball to America," Ecko told TODAY co-host Matt Lauer during an exclusive interview Monday.
Choose wisely, reader. For you are making baseball history. Doesn't that feel good?
Previously on the FanHouse:
Bonds' Record Ball ... Wait, $750K?!
Bidders On Bonds Ball: Thanks But No Thanks
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Reader Comments ( Page 1 of 11)
1. WASTE OF money without a doubt, HANK AARON is the true Home Run King and always will be until someone TALENTED, breaks the record, the other jerk (Not worth mentioning) is not even in the same class as Aaron, Mays and the rest. END OF STORY
Posted at 1:16PM on Sep 17th 2007 by Arthur
2. Send the ball into space ... with Barry holding it!
Posted at 1:17PM on Sep 17th 2007 by Steve
3. Burn the damn thing!!
Posted at 1:22PM on Sep 17th 2007 by steve
4. Bond balls are not worth two old pennys rubbed together. Hank Aron yes, Babe Ruth yes, Bonds NO!
Posted at 1:23PM on Sep 17th 2007 by Chuck
5. I AGREE WITH A PREVIOUS STATEMENT SEND THE BALL INTO SPACE WITH BONDS HOLDING IT. HE IS A CHEAT AND A FRAUD. HE DOES NOT DESERVE ANY RECOGNITION FOR HIS SO CALLED ACHEIVEMENT.
Posted at 1:25PM on Sep 17th 2007 by JOHN BUTLER
6. I wouldn't bid on this ball if i were the one to get the money for it. As far as I'm concerned he never broke the record. Hank Aaron did it "WITHOUT STEROIDS" BONDS DIDN'T!!!!!!
Posted at 1:26PM on Sep 17th 2007 by tweetysfriend367
7. Barry Bonds...classless
Seeing him at bat...arrogance
Strapping the ball to a rocket.....PRICELESS!!!!
Posted at 1:27PM on Sep 17th 2007 by Maria
8. I like the comment 'Send it into space with Barry holding it. Get him on the launch pad NOW!!
Posted at 1:30PM on Sep 17th 2007 by Lennie
9. If you have that much money, how helping the poor and middle class Americans with jobs. For being so smart and successful, you sure are stupid! By the way, I'll makae sure I never buy your prduct or shop at T.J. Maxx. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. It's just a stupid baseball!
Posted at 1:31PM on Sep 17th 2007 by LHingle
10. If anyone deserves to be in Copperstown it's Barry Bond's along with the ball.
Congradulations to Mr.Bonds, to me he'll forever be the best.
Posted at 1:34PM on Sep 17th 2007 by vivien bunnell
11. PLEASE.........GET OVER IT!!........ALL OF YOU BARRY BONDS HATERS OUT THERE!!..........THE MAN IS THE GREATEST BASEBALL PLAYER OF OUR ERA.......STEROIDS OR NO STEROIDS!!
Posted at 1:34PM on Sep 17th 2007 by Roy
12. OK, why don't we take an event that has left a bad taste in our mouth (presuming you don't feel Bonds won the title fair and square), why don't make something good from the event...sell the ball and donate the proceeds to several worthy charities? Why waste it?
Posted at 1:36PM on Sep 17th 2007 by Su
13. I agree send the ball into space with Barry Bonds, Micheal Vick, and Pacman Jones. Who the hell cares what happens to the ball, since Bonds cheated by using inhancing drugs to achieve this milestone.
Posted at 1:36PM on Sep 17th 2007 by Claudia
14. Barry Bond is the True Home Run King. Yall can just keep living in the past. Records are made to be broken.
Posted at 1:36PM on Sep 17th 2007 by Jon
15. Numbers do not lie. Barry Bonds is the leader of homeruns, like it or not. Get past the limited acceptance of others not like you. Your hate only causes your limitations in life.
Obtain as much money from it as you can or place it on display. You have lifelong history in your possession. Good luck!
Posted at 1:37PM on Sep 17th 2007 by lauren
16. place it as a prize in a steroid bottle.
Posted at 1:37PM on Sep 17th 2007 by hate bonds
17. put the bogus ball in the clearance bin at a yard sale in outer siberia.
Posted at 1:38PM on Sep 17th 2007 by S. CLARK
18. Yeah Prince Fielder!!!
Posted at 1:40PM on Sep 17th 2007 by Ian8289
19. He hit the ball and it went out. Home Run!!! It should go to Cooperstown.
Posted at 1:40PM on Sep 17th 2007 by Rich
20. I, UNLIKE MANY OF YOU FOLKS COMMENTING, MET BARRY BONDS ABOUT 3 YRS. AGO. HE WAS AN AWESOME, DOWN-TO EARTH INDIVIDUAL, AND EVEN SIGNED SOME STUFF FOR ME. WE TALKED FOR A COUPLE OF MINUTES, AND ENDED THINGS ON A HANDSHAKE. NOW, I'VE FORMED MY OPINION OF BARRY BONDS FROM AN ACTUAL MEETING, NOT FROM WHAT THE MEDIA HAS TOLD ME TO THINK ABOUT HIM!!!!
Posted at 1:41PM on Sep 17th 2007 by Roy