Section B · Page 6
The University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, February 9, 1999
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Home run ball buyer revealed
NEW YORK — Saying he was a "psycho fan" and a "sports geek," Spawn comic book creator Todd McFarlane revealed Monday he was the anonymous bidder who paid more than $3 million for Mark McGwire's 70th run ball.
The Associated Press
'Psycho fan' spends more than $3 million
"It was a mixture of business, charity and self indulgence to the ninth degree," he said of the decision to buy the ball.
McFarlane, who also has a company that makes action figures, said the timing of his announcement was tied to the yearly Toy Fair in New York.
McFarlane, a 37-year-old Canadian who lives in Tempe, Ariz., is a minority investor in the NHL's Edmonton Oilers.
He said he would like to allow the Hall of Fame to show the ball at times, would make it available to
charities to raise money and would let individual major league teams display it.
"I'd like to be able to take 20 swings in every major league ballpark," he said during a news conference.
McFarlane said purchasing the ball for $3,005,000 was cheaper than buying a sports team. He mentioned the proposed $800 million sale of the Washington Redskins.
The price?
"The way I look at it, I'm up $799 million bucks." he said.
In all, McFarlane bought nine home run balls hit by McGwire and Sammy Sosa, including McGwire's first, 63rd, 67th, 68th and 69th, and Sosa's 33rd (his record 20th in June), 61st and 66th.
McFarlane bought the ball at an auction Jan. 12, paying $2.7 million to Philip Ozersky, a research scientist at Washington University who caught the ball Sept. 27 at Busch Stadium in St. Louis. Guernsey's auction house got an additional $305,000 as its commission.
Sosa's final home run of the sea
son. No. 66, cost McFarlane $172,500.
All the others he bought at the auction cost less than $20,000 each.
McFarlane outbid Irwin Sternberg, the president of the neckwear firm Stonehenge Ltd., for No. 70. Sternberg stopped at $2.6 million; McFarlane said $2.9 million was as high as he was willing to go.
The group of balls will be called "The McFarlane Collection."
"Ibew my life savings on this," McFarlane said. "I'm not Donald Trump. I don't have a lot of cash."
McGwire; Fan has a collection of his homer run balls.
"Given that I name all my corporations
after myself, I'll name it after myself," he said. "Better than the 'Guy Who Has More Money Than Brains Collection."
Kansas lawmakers, fans honor Brett
The Associated Press
Gov. Bill Graves led the tribute during a joint session of the Legislature, as the state poured accolades on the Kansas City sports icon for his recent election to the hall in his first year of eligibility.
TOPEKA — Kansas leaders, lawmakers and just plain fans paid tribute Monday to Hall of Fame baseball star George Brett, lauding him as an adopted son whose playing career, charitable work and character have enhanced the state's image.
Graves referred to Brett as "one of our adopted Kansans who has chosen to live in our state, whose wife, Leslie, is a Kansan (from Wichita), and who has chosen to raise his three sons in Kansas."
Graves, who once attended a fantasy baseball camp conducted by Brett, told him that being voted into the Hall of Fame, "means you will forever be recognized ... among the greatest players who ever played the game."
"Frankly, I can live anywhere in the country I want to live, and I'm
Graves: Brett has enhanced Kansas' image.
still living in Kansas," Brett said in response.
Brett received three standing ovations during the joint session and brought down the house when he alluded to Graves' 3-year-old daughter, Katie.
"If his daughter wants a Kansan, she's got the pick of my three boys," Brett said.
Brett, whose celebrity golf tournaments in Kansas City and Wichita have raised $660,000 for research trying to fine a cause and cure for Lou Gehrig's disease, said the big difference between suburban Los Angeles and Kansas was the charitable attitude of people.
Brett is a native of El Segundo, Calif., a small coastal suburb west of Los Angeles and adjacent on the south to Los Angeles International Airport.
"The one thing I've learned about our Midwestern lifestyle is we give back," he said.
"There are two things bad about living in Kansas City: there's no ocean, and it's colder than hell in the winter. But other than that, it's fantastic."
Also paying tribute to Brett was University of Kansas English Professor James Carothers, who teaches a course titled, "The Literature of Baseball."
Carothers said Brett combined determination, courage and performance, a player who "hit hard, ran hard and played hard — a gamer. George Brett was a hero as much off the field as on the field."
Brett is 13th on the career hits list with 3,154 and was a 13-time All-Star. The third baseman hit .305 in a 21-year career soent entirely with the Rovals.
He also is the only player to achieve 3,000 hits, 300 home runs, 100 triples, 600 doubles and 200 stolen bases.
He won three American League batting championships, including when he hit .390 in 1980. That was the year he threatened to become the first major leaguer to hit .400 since Ted Williams in 1941.
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