Mark McGwire's 70th home run ball is worth way less than $3 million

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• Sales Spike On Resale Market ...
• Mark McGwire’s 70th Home Run Ball Is Now Worth As Little As $250,000 After Being Sold For $3 Million In 1999
• Mark McGwire's 70th home run ball -- once sold for over $3M -- may be worth just $250K now
• CEO SPORTS 1998 MARK MCGWIRE 70th HOME RUN COMMEMORATIVE ENVELOPE
• Aaron Judge becomes 16th captain in Yankees history

The man who caught Judge's 61st ball, Toronto Bluejay’s bullpen coach Matt Buschmann, is also married to a sports reporter, the NFL Network’s Sara Walsh. Compared to the examples above, the sale of Judge’s historic homer is expected to land straight in strike zone. Milwaukee Brewers outfielder "Hammerin' Hank" Aaron drilled his final career home run into the left field seats of Milwaukee County Stadium on July 20, 1976. He sold the souvenir to Michael Lasky, founder of the Psychic Friends Network. PSN was a $3.99 per minute telephone service that flooded late night TV during the 1990s with half hour infomercials hosted by singer Dionne Warwick. The ball was withdrawn from sale and PSA/DNA Authentication & Grading services was called in to figure out which one was real.

For more information, please read our Legal Disclaimer. If you or someone you know has a gambling problem, call GAMBLER. Sosa tied McGwire with his 65th homer on Sept. 25, but McGwire homered on the same day for No. 66.

Sales Spike On Resale Market ...

After the 1998 season, Philip Ozersky, a research scientist, caught the ball at Busch Stadium in St. Louis on September 27. In the 1998 baseball season, Mark McGwire’s 70th Home Run Ball is one of the world’s most valuable sports memorabilia artifacts. Estimated delivery dates - opens in a new window or tab include seller's handling time, origin ZIP Code, destination ZIP Code and time of acceptance and will depend on shipping service selected and receipt of cleared payment. Delivery times may vary, especially during peak periods. McGwire’s reputation would eventually take a major hit when steroids stopped being a dirty little secret and a massive scandal ensued.

On September 8, McGwire became the new home run king when he hit his 62nd home run of the season. According to TMZ Sports, several sports memorabilia auction houses are estimating that McGwire's home run ball may currently be worth as little as $250,000. During the 1998 Major League Baseball season, St. Louis Cardinals slugger Mark McGwire set the single-season record with 70 home runs. Shortly after McGwire launched that historic home run, comic book artist Todd McFarlane purchased the baseball for just over $3 million. According to some of the top sports memorabilia auction houses in the world. Generally acknowledged, McGwire is one of baseball’s most potent hitters.

Mark McGwire’s 70th Home Run Ball Is Now Worth As Little As $250,000 After Being Sold For $3 Million In 1999

McFarlane told TMZ Sports that he isn't too bothered by the fact that the value of the McGwire ball has plummeted. That's likely because he also owns Bonds' No. 73 home run ball from the 2001 season, so at the end of the day he does have two of the most historic home run balls in baseball history. Judge’s 62nd home run ball didn’t even come close to the record. Per ESPN, the most expensive baseball ever sold at auction was Mark McGwire’s 70th home run in 1998, which went for $3.05 million.

The 12-time All-Star fell off the Baseball Hall of Fame ballot in 2016 after receiving just 12.3 percent of the vote in his final year of eligibility. Once one of the most valuable sports memorabilia items in the world, Mark McGwire's 70th home run ball from the 1998 season has plummeted in value over the subsequent 22 years. Hall of Famer and former Atlanta Braves Hank Aaron waves to fans after being introduced prior to the Braves MLB baseball game against the Chicago Cubs in Atlanta April 5, 2010. Estimates say the ball will fetch more than Mark McGwire’s 70th homer from the 1998 season. Texan Cory Youmans said he turned down a $3 million offer for Judge's ball. Aaron Judge’s 62nd home run ball is expected to sell for a record when the auction for the one-of-a-kind collectible ends Saturday night.

Mark McGwire's 70th home run ball -- once sold for over $3M -- may be worth just $250K now

The Sosa-McGwire bombfest that year will forever be remembered as one of the most enthralling sports stories of my childhood, one of the first to introduce me to the imaginative power of sports. And for that, I will always be grateful for steroids. It’s been 20 years since Mark McGwire ALLEGEDLY injected all the roids and smashed his 70th home run of the 1998 season. Per TMZ Sports, two prominent auctioneers value the ball between $250,000 and $400,000. Action Network’s Darren Rovell spoke with Youmans, who said he wasn’t comfortable with a private sale — There were offers up to $3 million before he let Goldin handle the auctioning.

The current record for longest Home Run Derby homer in the Statcast era belongs to Yankees slugger Aaron Judge, who smashed one 513 feet during the 2017 derby at Marlins Park. Perhaps the only interesting fact about Judge's ball is a coincidence. Youmans is married to Emmy-winning reporter (and former "The Bachelor contestant") Bri Amaranthus.

CEO SPORTS 1998 MARK MCGWIRE 70th HOME RUN COMMEMORATIVE ENVELOPE

The Judge auction is expected to run smoothly, without the screwballs marking some colorful past sales. Home run balls are all the rage again, what with St. Louis’ Albert Pujols hitting his 700th home run and Aaron Judge crossing the 60-homer mark with the Yankees. In 2010, prior to being hired as the Cardinals’ hitting coach, McGwire admitted that he used steroids at various points in his career, including during the 1990s and the 1998 season. On May 8, 1998, Mark McGwire hit career home run number four-hundred in his four-thousand seven-hundred twenty-sixth at bat, which was faster than any other player at that point in baseball history. Back in 1998 in the height of the steroid era, Mark McGwire was chasing 70 home runs during one of the most exciting stretches of baseball.

His line for the season was even more impressive, as he finished the year with a .299 batting average, .470 on-base percentage, and a .752 slugging percentage. Carl Pavano, pitching in relief for the Expos, retired the first two batters he faced before Joe McEwing and J.D. Drew hit back-to-back singles to bring McGwire to the plate. On the first pitch he saw, a fastball up in the zone, McGwire launched the ball down the left-field line for a three-run homer. He started his historic day with a first-inning single. Center fielder Brian Jordan brought home his 91st RBI of the season on a ground ball, and Fernando Tatis led off the second inning with a home run that gave St. Louis a 2-0 lead.

"This is probably the most famous baseball in the world, and it should set a record for the most valuable baseball ever sold," Goldin told Stewart Varney. Which brings us to a memorable case of a fan being caught up in the frenzy of a historic home run. In 1998, Phil Ozersky caught Mark McGwire’s 70th home run ball, which at the time, was akin to holding the Holy Grail itself in one’s hands. Ozersky was a 26-year-old genetic researcher making $30,000, and asked to meet McGwire in addition to gettinng the signed bat, ball, and jersey that the Cardinals were offering. David specializes in game-used historic baseballs ... Selling some of the most famous HR balls ever including Barry Bonds 762 ball, A-Rod's 500 and 600 HR baseballs and more.

We cover the topics that are of interest to modern, millennial men. This includes sports and culture news, gear, and high tech. When McGwire surpassed Maris with his 62nd homer, the ball ended up in the hands of Tim Forneris, who opted to give the ball back to the slugger even though he was told it could fetch up to $1 million. After that point, an interesting subplot emerged once people realized anyone who got their hands on one of his home run balls found themselves in possession of a potential goldmine.

The company used "unique DNA technology," along with an "exhaustive" analysis of documentary and non-documentary evidence to conclude that Cicero’s ball was authentic. PSA/DNA then tagged the ball with a permanent and non-transferable trace liquid containing a synthetic strand of DNA that is nearly "impossible to replicate," PSA/DNA said. Minutes before bidding was to start, a family friend of the New York Yankees outfielder told the auctioneer the ball was a fake, claiming Mantle’s widow, Merlyn, owned the true 500th ball. Ozersky has done right by the money he’s received from the sale.

McGwire hit home runs number 69 and 70 on September 27th, and the 70th home run was caught by fan Phil Ozersky. McGwire broke record in style 7 with a home run against the Cubs. He broke the record the following night with a 341-foot shot off Chicago’s Steve Trachsel. Of Goldin Auctions was on the low end of that spectrum, estimating McGwire's then-record-setting ball to be worth $250,000 to $300,000. Arndt finally sold his piece of history for $650,000 to Connecticut money manager Andrew Knuth in 1999. The ball flew above the head of groundskeeper Richard Arndt, who promptly retrieved it,according to FanGraphs.

Well, Mark apparently didn't agree, and Phil ended up walking away with $3 million. McGwire hit four homers with 12 RBIs in his first four games — all at Busch Stadium — to set the tone for a record-breaking season. There was a mad frenzy in the outfield bleachers whenever a dinger landed, as there was no telling which home run would be the one to set the overall record.

Instead, Youmans, who is a financial adviser for Fisher Investments in Dallas, got half of that at the auction, which had six recorded bids, the final of which was for $1.25 million. Combined with a $250,000 buyer’s premium, that resulted in the final price. Youmans did not comment on the sale price in his statement. Predicted by an auction house to break records and sell for more than $3 million, the ball went for half that amount. McGwire has also admitted to using steroidsthroughout his career, including during the 1998 campaign.