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It's truly amazing to me that people still want the baseballs from Barry Bonds homeruns, even though the SF Giants slugger has been disgraced by allegations of steroid use to pump up his athletic performance. I can understand the fascination of wanting to own a baseball that shattered a record, but because of all the allegations swirling around Bonds doesn't that take some of the magical sheen off of the balls from Barry Bonds homeruns? It does to my mind. If the slugger cheated to achieve Bonds record breaking homerun doesn't that make that record somehow suspect, worthy of being marked with an asterisk in the record books? That's my two cents worth, anyway. But the fact remains that baseballs from Barry Bonds homeruns are selling for astronomical prices when put up for auction. A case in point, a baseball from one of Barry Bonds homeruns, his record-breaking #756, to be exact, fetched a whopping $752,467. Ball #762 ran up to $259,375 before bidding concluded, and will undoubtedly have garnered much higher closing bids. But I wonder if these baseballs will hold their value once more information emerges about Bonds' steroid use, or if he does time for lying to the Feds.