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PLAY BALL Think the toe-to-toe home-run battle between Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire last baseball season was heated? You should have seen the off-season...
Media coverage of Mark McGwire's 70-home-run summer focused national attention on everything from his sock color to his typical breakfast...
FOUL BALL After winning back baseball fans with last season's home-run heroics, how does Major League Baseball express its gratitude? By jacking up prices, of course. The average ticket will cost $15.26 this year (an increase of 7%), ranging from the Minnesota Twins' $8.22 to the Boston Red Sox's $23. Judging by their '98 home-game records and '99 ticket prices, here are a couple of teams that potentially offer the most (and fewest) wins for your money...
...image out of my mind: "Mr. McGwire, I think I have something that belongs to you," 22-year-old Tim Forneris, a part-time grounds keeper for the St. Louis Cardinals, proudly decreed last fall as he handed over home-run ball No. 62--and with it probably the most expensive thing he would ever hold. Consider: a few weeks ago, a mysterious bidder paid $3 million to the guy who auctioned off home-run ball No. 70. I don't mean to pick on Forneris. Giving up the baseball was an honorable gesture. And he did get some fame...
...share for Amazon.com on Jan. 8, you know what I mean. If you didn't, here's a hint: last week the stock ended at $117. Forneris surely was influenced by herd thinking. In the weeks before McGwire's famous swat there was a groundswell of local opinion that home-run balls should be returned. "Fans who kept the balls were vilified," says Dan Paisner, who is writing a book on the subject. But it's nothing that...