My 500 homerun ball
 

Hi everyone.
I realized there a million of these floating around the hobby, but I was pretty excited about recently adding Sammy Sosa to my ball (thanks to Tom Orr at Atomic Sports). I started this ball with Harmon Killebrew in 1989 and completed first 11 members in 1992 with Schmidt. Then school intervened, and I did not pick it back up until 2014, when my son became interested.

Barry Bonds is the only player left. As you can see I had to work around some of the sloppily placed signatures. Although I initially thought the home run totals would be cool, they take up space. I suppose that is what we call "character."

Thanks for the look guys!!

Sweetspot

Sorry messed up photo

Nice Ball!

Where will Bonds go? Looks like the only possible spot is above Schmidt. And fortunately, he has a very small sig!

Nice ball!

Who signed under Jim Thome; Rafael Palmeiro?

I also don't see Manny Ramirez on it.

Steve

You read my mind - I was thinking of putting Bonds above Schmidt. Good catch.

Steve, if you look under Gary Sheffield there is Willie Mays, and above Willie Mays is a horrible scribble. That's Manny Ramirez!

Here is Manny above Willie.

Sorry Steve- yes that is Raphie!

[QUOTE=Joecoco;2002490]You read my mind - I was thinking of putting Bonds above Schmidt. Good catch.


It looks like there might be just a bit more room between Killebrew and Robinson, for Bonds to sign.

Steve

I thought about putting Bonds there too Steve, but may run into the 573 number? I will reserve that spot for Trout :)

Hello could you please elaborate on Atomic sports and how to get Sosa on a Ball. Goldin sports has hinted that Bonds may fo a private signing. But that was before Covid-19..

That is incredible about Bonds. Thanks for the heads up. Ken Goldin is fantastic. I got Sosa through Tom Orr at Atomic Sports. He does signings with athletes all over the country. He is really easy to work with and prompt service to boot!

This an amazing ball...and more amazing is that you got each signature yourself....

Thank you so much! As you all know, it is so much fun to grow the collection.