Most Expensive Sports Memorabilia
Item: Mark McGwire's 70th-home-run baseball
Winning Bid: $3 million
Sold: 1999
You knew you were in for something special when Mark McGwire came
to bat. With the best at-bats-per-home-run ratio in the history of
baseball (10.61 compared to Babe Ruth's 11.80), the St. Louis Cardinal
was destined for Major League Baseball history. But McGwire's real claim
to fame came in 1998, when he beat the Chicago Cubs' Sammy Sosa for the
record of the most home runs in a single season. Comic-book creator and
music producer Todd McFarlane bought the record-breaking 70th-home-run
baseball for $3 million and added it to his collection of nine other
Sosa and McGwire baseballs from the 1998 season. In 2003, McFarlane also
purchased Barry Bonds' 73rd-home-run baseball, for which he paid
$450,000. Apparently steroid scandals decrease the value of sports
memorabilia.Winning Bid: $3 million
Sold: 1999
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