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Article: AROUND THE HORN.(Sports)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- April 13, 2002
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Murphy's Law costs $47,500
Call it the $52,500 catch.
That's how much - minus commissions - Charles Murphy will receive for the ball Barry Bonds hit to tie Mark McGwire's home run record.
Last fall, Murphy rejected a "ridiculous" $100,000 offer for No. 70, which he caught in Houston. Instead, visions of a seven-figure bonanza guided him to the auction block.
But a three-week online auction that ended early yesterday generated just two bids for the ball. The winner got it for $52,500.
"Life is too short to say woulda, coulda, shoulda," said Murphy, a Houston real estate agent.
Bonds hit the home run Oct. 4 and ended ...