Fan Spends &#36;25K Hoping for Bonds HR Ball
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Spending nearly &#36;25,000 for baseball tickets seemed like a worthy investment to Michael Mahan, considering the 700th home run ball crushed by Barry Bonds will likely fetch a much higher price.
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For Barry Bonds, the past two days have been a coronation, a chance to be celebrated before he actually breaks the career home run record.
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MILWAUKEE -- San Francisco Giants manager Felipe Alou hopes Barry Bonds&#39; 700th home run -- whenever it comes -- will change the public&#39;s perception of the surly slugger.
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By JOSEPH WHITE AP Sports Writer. a job that might last only a few months while the team is being sold. funding for a new ballpark.
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This week&#39;s reminder comes courtesy of a lawsuit filed in San Francisco County Superior Court over ownership of another Barry Bonds home run ball.
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Exhibit A: Sometime over the next few days, a San Francisco athlete will break baseball's most treasured record. Despite his achievement of hitting more home runs than anyone else in Major League Baseball, Barry Bonds will be greeted with rage, ridicule and vast amounts of spit -- because many pe...
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The ball Barry Bonds hit for his record-breaking 756th home run will be branded with an asterisk and sent to the Baseball Hall of Fame, its owner said Wednesday.
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The Red Sox finalized a $25.5 million, three-year contract Wednesday with free-agent right-hander Matt Clement, who fills a hole in a starting rotation weakened by the departure of Pedro Martinez.
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Barry Bonds, who is chasing the Major League's home run record, says he will donate some of his equipment to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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As quickly as the new Red Sox owners delivered on their vow to produce a World Series victory, they have achieved a similar triumph in sports philanthropy, distributing more than $7.5 million to needy causes since they bought the team in 2002. The chief owners and their partners personally contributed nearly $5 million of the donated funds.
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The fan who caught Mark McGwire's 70th home run ball in 1998 says he stands by his decision to auction off the artifact because the $2.7 million he took in was well worth it.
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The man who emerged from a pile of baseball fans clutching Barry Bonds&#39; 700th home run ball last month is now richer by $804,129.
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New York Yankees manager Joe Torre has reached across one of baseball's biggest rivalries to donate &#36;25,000 to the Jimmy Fund, which raises money for children with cancer and has long been affiliated with the Boston Red Sox.
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The man who bought Barry Bonds's 756th home run ball for more than $750,000 is letting the public decide its final resting place.
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Even if Barry Bonds is not an All-Star this season, Giants owner Peter Magowan expects the slugger to take part in festivities for baseball's summer classic in his home ballpark. Magowan hopes that Bonds' godfather, Hall of Famer Willie Mays, will be a big part of the July event in San Francisco. Yet Magowan would rather No. 25 is in uniform and playing for the NL roster and World Series-winning manager Tony La Russa.
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When Steve Williams picked up the ball Barry Bonds had just hit for his 700th home run, he thought he had his hands on a piece of history.
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Now that Barry Bonds is assured of staying with the San Francisco Giants for two more seasons, he already is looking beyond. His children won&#39;t let him think about retirement just yet.