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BARRY BONDS' 756TH HR BALL IN HALL: Cooperstown gets record breaker – but it's branded with an asterisk.
*The baseball that Barry Bonds smacked out of San Francisco's AT&T Park on Aug. 7 to break Hank Aaron's home run record has finally come to rest in the Hall of Fame.
The ball arrived in Cooperstown, N.Y. Tuesday via a driver, who walked into the venue and handed museum officials the ball along with a letter from its owner Marc Ecko, stating the treasure was an "unconditional donation."
"We are very happy to receive the baseball as a donation, and not as a loan," Hall spokesman Brad Horn said. "We look forward to adding this ball to our permanent collections."
According to the Associated Press, the ball is marked with the five-pronged asterisk dye-cut into the cowhide, from stitch-to-stitch where "Major League Baseball" is printed. Ecko, who bought the ball in an online auction for $752,467, asked fans to vote in an Internet poll on what he should do with it. The majority called for its branding with an asterisk, to reflect the steroid allegations surrounding Bonds, and its delivery to the Hall.
Horn said the ball will be displayed in the coming weeks, once it is properly documented. Bonds has already donated the batting helmets he wore when he hit his 755th and 756th home runs.
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