Amazon.com Review
If your dreams of wrapping a mitt around a Mark McGwire or Sammy Sosa record-setting home-run baseball were dashed with the close of the 1998 season, you have another shot: purchasers of this catalog are eligible to participate in Guernsey's "Baseballs of 1998" auction, where, thanks to the generosity of several sure-handed gentlemen, McGwire home-run balls Nos. 63, 67, 68, and 70, and Sosa's Nos. 61, 64, and 66, are on the bidding block. The catalog not only grants admission to the auction--held on January 12, 1999 in New York's Madison Square Garden--but contains an absentee-bid form for those unable to attend the event. The catalog also pays tribute to the round-tripper, with elegant profiles of some of the game's most heroic, memorable homers: Bobby Thompson's "Shot Heard 'Round the Word"; Babe Ruth's predicted bash in the 1932 World Series; and, of course, McGwire and Sosa's race to break Roger Maris's single-season home-run record. Photographs of the McGwire and Sosa baseballs are accompanied by accounts of the men who caught them, and the insanity that ensued. Several other home-run related items will be auctioned, as well, including Henry Aaron's final homer, No. 755.
