"Banish It!"

Posted on | September 26, 2007 | No Comments

When Marc Ecko bid $752,467 for Barry Bond’s 756th home run, he knew exactly what he was going to do with it, he didn’t know what the voting public would do. Ecko placed the ball up on his website vote756, where 10m votes were cast deciding the fate of the ball. The public was given three options, bestow it to the hall, banish it into space, or brand it with an asterisk.

With 47% of the 10m voting for branding it. The ball will now be branded with an astrisk and be given to the Cooperstown Hall of Fame for display and safe keeping. In the end the ball will lay in the Hall of Fame, with a permanent reminder of the steroid era, and the circus surrounding the event.

The final percentages fall as such:

• 34% Bestow it to Cooperstown
• 47% Permanently Brand the ball with an asterisk before sending it to Cooperstown
• 19% Launch it into Space Forever

For the record, I voted once… and apparently the majority agreed with me.

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