756 *

Bonds has a chance of breaking the record AT WRIGLEY!

Is there a chance that someone really throws the ball back on the field?

 

nope -- it's worth money, even if he's a cheat.

 

I wouldn't get cheated selling the ball on the open market.

 

Someone (here, I think) once suggested that if whoever catches the ball has a Sharpie, they should write "Steroid Cheater" or something on the ball, THEN throw it back. In the abstract, that sounds perfect, but I'd probably wuss out and take the cash.

 

In realism, that's defacing of a historical element, and don't think for a second that in this age of 100x TV lenses, you won't be discovered.

 

True or false: The baseball record book had an asterisk next to Roger Maris' home run record.

 

True, since it took more games for him to do it than Ruth.
Kensesaw Mountain Landis said make it so.

 

It's my understanding there were separate categories:

154-game season

162-game season

No asterisk (except in popular mythology)

I could be wrong.

 

Writing 'cheater' would be just as historical as the ball.

 

Also, the Yankees played in 163* regular-season games in 1961. Maris played in 161.






* Includes rain-suspended 5-5 tie at Baltimore.

 

Vandalism/graffiti is historic?