Also on the auction block is the ball that Hank Aaron (remember him?) pounded out of Fulton County Stadium more than 20 years ago to set the all-time home run record. Got your checkbook ready? Put it back in your pocket, big shot: Unless you've already mailed in your financial statements proving you have at least $100,000 to drop on a slightly used Spalding, Guernsey's doesn't want to hear from you. Still, you can watch the action online, which at these prices is probably the safest thing.
Home Run Baseballs in Online Auction
The real home run derby begins on Tuesday: eBay, the online auction house,
is selling off home
run balls from Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa. What will we hear for Nos. 61,
63, 67 and 70 from McGwire, along with Sosa's 61st, 64th, and 66th? EBay
has been accepting
bids online for the past week; offline partner Guernsey's Auction House is
using those as the floor for
its live auction in Madison Square Garden starting at noon Eastern time.