What price history? Mark McGwire's record for the most home runs in a season left a lot of little people quite rich and others simply honoured to have caught the baseballs as they left the park. Nonetheless, the punters who snatched McGwire's homers from the air or were first to dive on the balls when they rolled into the bleachers no longer own their prize possessions.
Eleven record-breaking baseballs fell into the laps of fans as the hitter pummelled his way into the history books last year. Amazingly, not one of the fans kept the ball.
Mike Davidson might have made $300,000, but accepted season tickets and mementos for number 61. John Grass sold number 63 for $50,000, while college student Chuck Dombrowski gave number 65 back to McGwire for nothing other than a few signatures. Numbers 67, 68 and 69 were each sold for $50,000, while his final home run, number 70, made Phiip Ozersky a multi-millionaire. Ozersky sold the record-making ball to Todd McFarlane, creator of the Spawn comic book, for $3 million. Only in America.
