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San Fran Layover Pays Dividends For Mets Fan
Published 8/8/2007 by Enrico at The700Level.com - Philly Sports & Minutiae
... >>Queens man catches Bonds HR number 756 [ESPN] ...

Mets Fan Catches Bond's Record Home Run Ball
Published 8/8/2007 by Matt Regan at Global New York Mets Fan Blog
... SAN FRANCISCO -- With the crack of the bat a brief stillness settled over the right-center field bleachers at AT&T; Park as Barry Bonds' record-breaking homer rocketed toward the crowd. ...

Incidents, Redemptions and Allegations
Published 8/9/2007 by Mets2Moon at The Ballclub
... To the guy who caught the ball, Matt Murphy of Queens, NY, for catching the ball, surviving being gang tackled by 300 other lunatics, and being carried out with his Jose Reyes Jersey in full view. Nice way to kick them all in the nuts. My father was thoroughly amused by the sight of him being carried out by 10 SF Police Officers. ...

500K can buy a lot of guitars
Published 8/9/2007 by Jordi at The Serious Tip
... When I first heard a guy named Matt Murphy caught (or fought for) Barry Bonds's 756 home run ball, I though what was ...

What Would it Take to Part with the 756 Ball?
Published 8/9/2007 by Kevin Hayward at All on the Field sports blog
... Fast forward 46 years, and 21-year-old Matt Murphy is the one with the decision to make. A New York Mets fan who was in San Francisco on his way to Australia, Murphy found himself at the bottom of the pile in right-center field after Bonds' 756th. ...

Happenings and Mishappenings: Hurry
Published 8/9/2007 by Luke Halpert at Nyjer Please
... A Mets fan caught Barry Bonds' 756th home run ball. - ESPN.com ...

Gone Fishing
Published 8/10/2007 by mr. met at the metropolitans
... Craptastic. ...

The Week In Quotes: August 5-12 by Alex Carnevale
Published 8/13/2007 at Baseball Prospectus
... ) "It's an expensive catch. Once he took possession of the ball and it was his ball, it was income to him based on its value as of yesterday." -- John Barrie , a tax lawyer with Bryan Cave LLP in New York, on Matt Murphy, who caught Barry Bonds' 756th home run ball. ( ESPN.com ) "Father time catches up with all of us. It wasn't anything mechanical. He still had a great delivery. It's tougher for him to go deeper in ballgames. He probably didn't have the velocity he once had, and the pinpoint location that he's always relied on. I will say that every time he went out there, he gave you everything he had and battled as well as he could. It happens to all of us, even one of the great ones." --Padres general manager Kevin Towers , on ...

Remembering the Season that Was: The Top 10
Published 9/30/2007 by Kevin Hayward at All on the Field sports blog
... Barry Bonds' 756th home run. The recovery, ...