Bonds Ball #756 to be auctioned. What's its value?

[DivineBovine]

It's going up for online auction. Experts are guessing $500K.

 

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=txbondsauction&prov=st&type=lgns

 

 

Seriously, if I were filthy rich, I'd pay $500K for it. If McGwire's #70 went for $3 million, then the Bonds ball is easily $1 million. The experts keep saying the market has cooled, but they fail to cite examples. Plus, I'd even say the ball is more "historic", given the steroid controversy. This is the biggest record in sports, and ARod is no lock to break it.

 

I think its worth $2 million, and I'll guess it goes for more than $1 million.

[Wheelimus]

What the writer of that article doesn't realize is that it's an auction, and that means your usual rules don't apply. The only thing that matters are two simple words...two people. That's what it takes for something to go for a ridiculous price at an auction. Two people who really want the item and will pay at or above market price.

 

I have very little doubt that there are a lot more than "two people" out there when it comes to a one of a kind item like this. I do think it will go for well less than McGwire's ball, but I'd put the likely sale price somewhere between 1 and 2 million.

[Soul]

I'd probably be way off base venturing a guess at the value. Really, it will be whatever someone is willing to pay at the time it is sold.

[MPrior]

I heard an interview with whats-his-name, the comic book guy who came up with Spawn (Todd McFarlane? Is that right?) - he's the guy who paid $3 million for McGwire's ball. He said (and I have not verified this) that no other baseball has sold for over a million dollars since, and hypothesized that Bonds' would go for 400-500k.

 

He's a hardcore collector, obviously, so I'm apt to believe him. But I guess I wouldn't be surprised if it went for much much more than that.

[MikeyLikesCubbies]

I heard him and his buddies agreed ahead of time to split the money if one of them caught it...think he backs out, or he's a man of his word?

[OleMissCub]

The big money should be for the last homerun ball Bonds hits, right? Seeing as how that ball would be THE record ball.

[Marco4]

But if he does that in Florida, there'll be no-one there to catch it....

[wekse]

i think it's lame that the only reason he has to sell it is because our govt. wants their piece and was going to charge him taxes on the ball anyway.

[Soul]

i think it's lame that the only reason he has to sell it is because our govt. wants their piece and was going to charge him taxes on the ball anyway.

 

How the hell were they going to determine the amount of taxes until its sold? That doesn't seem right, the profits aren't realized until the sale takes place.

[BryanCubs]

I would give them a couple dollars or whatever a baseball is worth, because honestly it is just a baseball. Maybe I am alone on this, but I really don't get the whole major money for memorabilia thing. I guess there are enough dumb millionaires out there though.

[E.J.]

I would give them a couple dollars or whatever a baseball is worth, because honestly it is just a baseball. Maybe I am alone on this, but I really don't get the whole major money for memorabilia thing. I guess there are enough dumb millionaires out there though.

 

Me either. It's just a $12 baseball. I don't understand why it's worth so much. I don't understand why people will pay that much money for it. Of course, if I caught it I'd definitely sell it to whichever idiot is willing to pay the most. :D

[erik316wttn]

It's really hard to judge something like that.

 

A wise man once said "Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it." If there are two guys out there willing to pay $10 million for it, that's what it'll go for.

[DivineBovine]

I would give them a couple dollars or whatever a baseball is worth, because honestly it is just a baseball. Maybe I am alone on this, but I really don't get the whole major money for memorabilia thing. I guess there are enough dumb millionaires out there though.

 

Me either. It's just a $12 baseball. I don't understand why it's worth so much. I don't understand why people will pay that much money for it. Of course, if I caught it I'd definitely sell it to whichever idiot is willing to pay the most. :D

 

 

Of course it has little value to most of us.

 

The people who collect stuff like that aren't dumb, because they know there are others out there and there always will be. They know that the ball has investment value. You'd have to be insanely rich to be able to spend a million dollars on something to sit in your house because you think its cool. There aren't many people that rich who want this ball that bad. But knowing that you or your kids might be able to sell it for more someday really changes things.

[DivineBovine]

The big money should be for the last homerun ball Bonds hits, right? Seeing as how that ball would be THE record ball.

 

 

I disagree. How many times have you seen #755 on TV? #715 is burned into everyone's memory.

 

The thing to worry about is ARod.