Honus Wagner Is Totally Pwning Barry Bonds

Speaking of no one caring about Barry Bonds, how's that record-breaker auction going these days? Oh, yeah: not good.

With just eight days left in the auction, No. 756 is doing meager returns at the online auction house. For a ball that would probably have fetched $500,000 on the open market -- and far more just a few years ago -- that's a low, low number. Who says you need to be a millionaire collector or a memorabilia conglomerate? At under $200,000, Bonds and his steroid-infused records are bringing luxury souvenirs to the middle class.

Not so much the case for Honus Wagner. The rarest baseball card in the world just dwarfed Barry's numbers: the Wager card just sold for $2.8 million, just a few months after it was purchased for $2.3 million. That's, what, 10 times the value of Bonds' ball? I know Wagner's card is rare, and there is a cloud of mystique surrounding its ownership, but, still, that discrepancy seems a little strange, if not downright insane.