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Bonds ball and asterisk to Hall of Fame

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Published: September 26, 2007 at 11:40 AM

COOPERSTOWN, N.Y., 26 (UPI) -- The ball Barry Bonds hit for his record-setting 756th home run will be marked with an asterisk and sent to the Baseball Hall of Fame in New York.

Mark Ecko, who bought the ball for $752,467, set up a Web site for fans to vote on what should happen to the ball. Some 80 percent of the Internet voters said the ball should be sent to the Hall of Fame with 47 percent saying it should be branded with an asterisk, Ecko said in announcing the vote results Wednesday.

The asterisk is meant to mark the controversy over Bonds' home run record and whether performance-enhancing drugs played a role the slugger's chase of Hank Aaron's all-time home run record.

"We're grateful to Marc for donating this baseball, which represents one of the game's most historic records," said Hall of Fame President Dale Petroskey. "Baseball belongs to the fans -- it always has and always will. The asterisk represents the voice of the fans at this moment in time. ? Our responsibility as a history museum is to present every story in proper context and this ball allows us to do that."

Bonds hit home run No. 756 on Aug. 7. He has added six home run since for a career total of 762 over 22 seasons.
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So that egotistical asswipe Ecko has insured himself a footnote in baseball well beyond when his shitty fashions are forgotten.
 
Originally posted by: Red Dawn
So that egotistical asswipe Ecko has insured himself a footnote in baseball well beyond when his shitty fashions are forgotten.
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Rather that egotistical asswipe than the other egotistical asswipe who hit the ball
 
Originally posted by: Fingolfin269
Ball should go to the hall minus the asterisk. The thought of doing that is just stupid.... just like last time.
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I disagree. I'm completely in favor of the asterisk.
 
If I owned the ball I wouldn't do that. Its his, he can do what he wants to it. I don't give a sh1t what he does with it.
 
Originally posted by: LS20
Originally posted by: Red Dawn
So that egotistical asswipe Ecko has insured himself a footnote in baseball well beyond when his shitty fashions are forgotten.
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Rather that egotistical asswipe than the other egotistical asswipe who hit the ball
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Except that toehr egotisitcal asswipe Barry Bonds won't be a footnote, he'll be known as the great Home Run Hitter ever asterik and all!

If I were the HOF Commisioner/President, Mucky Muck and I received that ball with an asterisk I'd just strip the rawhide off of it and re-cover it which is probably what they'd do and send the cover back to that douchebag Ecko.
 
I just don't care anymore. We'll have to put up with this shit until A-Rod breaks the record, and I hope to God he doesn't wind up testing positive for anything. Not because I like him more than Bonds (which I do, even though he's a Yankee) but because I don't want to have to deal with this crap again.

And yes, with the juice he is the best pure hitter of all-time. I still reserve the best overall spot for Ruth due to his pitching ability. Bonds was a lame duck in the outfield during the time he was a stud at the plate.
 
Originally posted by: BigJ
I just don't care anymore. We'll have to put up with this shit until A-Rod breaks the record, and I hope to God he doesn't wind up testing positive for anything. Not because I like him more than Bonds (which I do, even though he's a Yankee) but because I don't want to have to deal with this crap again.

And yes, with the juice he is the best pure hitter of all-time. I still reserve the best overall spot for Ruth due to his pitching ability. Bonds was a lame duck in the outfield during the time he was a stud at the plate.
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Well you have to take into considertion that Ruth more or less faced corn feed farm boys as his competition where as Bonds played against highly trained (and chemically enhanced) professional athletes. Ruth in his prime probably wouldn't make Triple A in this day and age and if he did it would only be as a pitcher.
 
In an interview with ESPN, a guy from the HOF has no problem with it, since it was the 'voice of the fans'. Truth is I think he's loving it, since the ball with an asterisk will probably be one of the museum's biggest fan draws.
 
Originally posted by: Red Dawn
Originally posted by: BigJ
I just don't care anymore. We'll have to put up with this shit until A-Rod breaks the record, and I hope to God he doesn't wind up testing positive for anything. Not because I like him more than Bonds (which I do, even though he's a Yankee) but because I don't want to have to deal with this crap again.

And yes, with the juice he is the best pure hitter of all-time. I still reserve the best overall spot for Ruth due to his pitching ability. Bonds was a lame duck in the outfield during the time he was a stud at the plate.
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Well you have to take into considertion that Ruth more or less faced corn feed farm boys as his competition where as Bonds played against highly trained (and chemically enhanced) professional athletes. Ruth in his prime probably wouldn't make Triple A in this day and age and if he did it would only be as a pitcher.
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While I see what you're saying Red, I'm not sure I agree. If we just plunked Ruth into the modern baseball world, he would certainly fail and it's certainly true that pitching, conditioning, etc has come a long way since his day. The same, however, can be said for hitting. Players now have videotape of pitchers. They can watch how a guy delivers certain pitches, they can look for tendencies. All this technology makes the hitter's job easier today versus eighty years ago. Other factors to consider: pitchers could get away with 'cheating' (spitballs, etc) more easily, the balls in Ruth's day weren't identical (probably confers no advantage either way), and the fences back in the day were, generally, much further away.

What I'm driving at is that, when all the factors are accounted for, I have a feeling you'd find that the level of competition Ruth faced is pretty similar to the level Bonds faces today.
 
Originally posted by: Red Dawn

Well you have to take into considertion that Ruth more or less faced corn feed farm boys as his competition where as Bonds played against highly trained (and chemically enhanced) professional athletes. Ruth in his prime probably wouldn't make Triple A in this day and age and if he did it would only be as a pitcher.
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So why didnt those other athletes in that era who also faced corn feed farm boys swat 600 homers?
 
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