Bonds #700 Baseball Sells For $800K

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From money.cnn.com

An auction took place on Overstock.com for the baseball that the San Francisco Giants slugger hit to bring his career home run tally to 700.

A registered user bidding under the tag, "bomasterj," bought the ball for $804,129, according to the site. But the sale has yet to be finalized until payment has been received, and officials at Overstock declined to identify bomasterj.

"I think that it is outrageous. It is way more than the ball is worth," said Mike Heffner, president of Lelands.com, an auction house specializing in sports memorabilia. "If I were to appraise the ball, I would put it into the $100,000 to 200,000 bracket."

Lelands.com auctioned another famous Bonds ball in 2003 after the slugger hit 73 home runs in a single season. That ball went for "only" $517,500 but was sold to Todd McFarlane, the baseball collector who spent more than $3 million to buy Mark McGwire's 70th home run ball... Entire Story Here