Bary Bonds Ball and I

As a photojournalist in New York, I get to do all types of interesting things. Like last week, Marc Ecko, who just paid $750,000 for Barry Bonds record setting home run ball, called a group of photogs into his office for a photo session.

There were only four of us, and he took the ball out of its small plastic case and asked "Who wants to hold the ball? Its everyones ball. Hold it"

Hey, I am NOT a baseball fan but when given the opportunity to co-exist with history in a unique way, who am I to say no.

So here I am, me, Marc, and Barry Bond's ball. Please note that I DID toss it in the air a few times and caught it an equal number of times. Clearly I didn't want an asterisk next to the ball, in the history books, that said "This home run ball was in great shape until David Handschuh dropped it and it rolled out the window into traffic on a midtown street where it was struck by a cab and rolled down a sewer."

Ruh-Row says Astro.