Baseball Hall of Fame rejects Barry Bonds record-breaking ball

Bonds, 43, belted the landmark homer last Aug. 7 against the Washington Nationals to surpass Hank Aaron and become major league baseball’s all-time leader. The ball was then purchased by fashion designer Marc Ecko for $750,000 and he offered to conditionally loan it to the museum, who said they could not accept his conditions and also had artefacts from Bonds’ home run chase already on display.

According to Fox News, the homerun ball was originally caught by Matt Murphy, a New York native, who said he had not choice but to sell the ball. According to Murphy several people told him he would be taxed on the valuable souvenir if he held onto it.

After the ball was sold  to Ecko for 750G’s, he had a website fabricated to try to determine the fate of the baseball.

 The following choices were voted on;

1. Send the ball immediatley to the Hall

2. Mark it with an asterisk before sending it to Cooperstown

3. Rocket Launch it into outer space

The results of 10 million votes were tallied consisting of 47% wanting to add an asterisk, 34 percent wanting it sent to the Hall, and 19 percent picked lauching it into outer space. It is not known whether Ecko ever did mark the ball. The associated press is still apparently working on  figuring it out.

Bonds called Ecko an “IDIOT” after hearing about his shenanigans and told reporters he would boycott the HOF if the ball was displayed with an asterisk.

“This is the most historic baseball ever to be sold,” said David Kohler, president of SCP Auctions”. Its a DAMN shame the Hall and Ecko can’t get their acts together!