Bonds 762 Home Run Ball Sells For

The record-setting Barry Bonds 762 home run ball was sold Saturday in an online auction at scpauctions.com for $376,612, including buyer's premium, to a collector who elected to remain anonymous.

Bonds' sent a 99-mph fast ball thrown by Colorado's Ubaldo Jimenezt into the Coors Field bleachers, and the record books, on Sept. 5, 2007. Boulder resident Jameson Sutton, 24, retrieved the ball from a three-man scuffle and placed 762 in a safety deposit box until coming forward on March 13. At the time, Sutton did not believe he had Bonds' final home run ball, expecting the slugger would hit another home run in the last three weeks of the 2007 season and thinking Bonds might play in 2008. Due to a serious illness in the family, Sutton decided to sell the ball with SCP Auctions.

"I am happy with my decision to sell the 762 ball and wish the new owner the best," Sutton said. "I'm especially proud to help my family pay some of the medical costs due to my father's illness."

Sutton and his family have created an LLC to handle proceeds of the sale of the ball, 50-50 with his parents. Money his parents receive will help defray the costs of Sutton's stepfather's battle with cancer.

SCP Auctions is no stranger to Bonds' memorabilia, having sold home run balls No. 755 and 756 for $186,750 and $752,467, respectively, on Sept. 15, 2007. In August 2006, Bonds' 715th home run ball, making him second on the all-time home run list surpassing Babe Ruth, sold for $220,100 at auction.