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I've written a couple of derisive, nose-in-the-air posts about the Sotheby's auction for Barry Bonds' all-time home run record ball, and now it's time to eat crow: the Bonds ball fetched $750,000 at auction, more than anyone's estimates, and more than lucky owner Matt Murphy was offered before the auction. It looked like Murphy made a horrible mistake to turn down a sure-fire $500,000 up until the last day of the auction, when the ball rose in value from about $200,000 to its final price. Instead of becoming an item of total disinterest from buyers and fans, the better-than-expected price indicates that someone, anyone, still cares about Barry Bonds' record enough to pay a considerable sum of money to possess its worldly dimension.
Of course, this isn't exactly a crowning auction achievement either: Mark McGwire's single-season ball sold for about $3 million in 1998, back before everyone had more than a slight inkling the records were being achieved with the help of performance-enhancing drugs. And Murphy? After taxes, he gets about $90,000 -- nothing to sniff at, sure, but a paltry sum compared to lucky ballhawks in the past.
Ah, steroids. They make everything so fun, don't they?
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