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Marc Ecko Needs To Stick With Designing Clothes
Friday, November 2, 2007, 01:59 PM EST
[Barry Bonds]
Recently, fashion mogul Marc Ecko was the high bidder in the auction for the all to famous Barry Bonds 756 homerun ball. He spent nearly three quarters of a million dollars on it...only to brand an asterisk on the ball and give it to the Hall of Fame. The Hall has acknowledged that they will indeed accept this ball. This may be one of the most outrageous things I have ever seen in sports. True, Ecko did ask for the public's opinion...and they gave it to him, but come on! This guy is way out of line. I'm not exactly a Bonds fan, but I am a baseball fan and I am really disturbed by this. I don't know which is worse - that this guy would deface a piece of baseball history or that the HOF would actually accept it into it's collection. I have no problem with there being an asterisk next to the name in the record books. This seems to be a more appropriate and mature solution to the problem. The ball is a piece of baseball history that will be viewed by fans for generations to come. Why should we let some rich guy deface it instead of allowing it to remain with the same appearance as it had when it touched the bat on that fateful night in August. Call me old fashioned, but I think is embarrassing to the sport of baseball.
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