I was watching Law and Order and missed Manny hit his 500th home run. How exciting that it happened here. I wonder how much money the person who caught it will ask to return it. I'd hold out for at least $50,000.
How in the world does any potential buyer of a famous homerun ball determine that the ball they are buying is the actual ball that was hit?
When players are approaching milestone homeruns, as Bonds did last year and in 2001, the league stamps a set of baseballs with a special mark and numbers them accordingly. The home plate umpire is given several of the balls each time the batter comes to hit, and he keeps track of the number on the ball that gets hit out.
They are doing this, I understand, for Ken Griffey this week, who is looking for #600 tomorrow in Philly
Doesn't that affect the physics of ball flight?
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