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Bonds Ball Owner Leaves Fate Up to You

Posted Sep 17, 2007 12:15PM By Eamonn Brennan (RSS feed)

Filed Under: MLB Fans, MLB Hall of Fame

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You don't have the money to toss, like, $800,000 at Barry Bonds' record-breaking home run ball. Very few of us do. But that doesn't mean we won't have a say in just what happens to the ball now that it's been purchased.

Why? Because the newly minted owner, Marc Ecko (yes, the designer of the Ecko clothing line you can lesuirely peruse at any local T.J. Maxx), is offering fans the chance to decide the ball's fate through our most egalitarian of processes: the vote!
Ecko is offering three choices: Donate it as is to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y.; brand it with an asterisk and donate it to the Hall of Fame; or put it on a rocket and blast it into space.

"I wanted the ball to democratize the ball and to give the ball to the people, to give the ball to America," Ecko told TODAY co-host Matt Lauer during an exclusive interview Monday.
You can vote at Vote756.com until Tuesday, September 25. Send the ball to the moon? Put it in the Hall of Fame? Throw an asterisk on that bad boy? What would you do to it?

Choose wisely, reader. For you are making baseball history. Doesn't that feel good?

Previously on the FanHouse:
Bonds' Record Ball ... Wait, $750K?!
Bidders On Bonds Ball: Thanks But No Thanks

Photos: Bonds Thru Time

Tags: Barry+Bonds, BarryBonds, Home+Run+Chase, HomeRunChase

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