Word: mcgwire
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Charlie, the smooth-haired twin, quotes a young cousin who, informed that the best Cardinal becomes Pope, asked, "So Mark McGwire will be next?" Tom, the twin with the hat, reports some of his classmates talking about scalping papal tickets. "The first thing that came into my mind," he says, "is that they're going to hell." That merits a couple of giggles...
...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...
...needs a stock portfolio when you've got baseball memorabilia? Mark McGwire's 70th home-run ball (not even the one that broke Ruth's record) set its own record at auction last week. But don't bet the farm on your signed Hank Aaron mitt yet. It's a steep drop to the next nine highest prices paid for sports memorabilia at public auction...
...Mark McGwire's 70th home-run ball 2 $640,000 - 1909-10 trading card of Honus Wagner (1996 auction) 3 $363,000 - 1927 Lou Gehrig road jersey 4 $306,000 - Jersey worn by Lou Gehrig the day he gave the "luckiest man" speech in 1939 5 $222,500 - 1909-10 trading card of Honus Wagner (1998 auction) 6 $220,000 - 1938 Lou Gehrig jersey 7 $220,000 - 1942 Jimmie Foxx jersey 8 $176,000 - 1922 Ty Cobb uniform 9 $172,500 - Sammy Sosa's 66th home-run ball 10 $132,000 - 1929 Babe Ruth road uniform...
...saying all the right things about all the right causes and avoiding the only topic which may actually affect the state of the Union in the immediate future. The only people he offended in his speech were cigarette makers, by calling for a federal suit against them, and Mark McGwire, by sitting Sammy Sosa next to the First Lady...