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Fan looks to deal Griffey's 600th HR ball -- South Florida Sun
MIAMI GARDENS - As he continued efforts to broker a deal between "Joe" and Ken Griffey Jr. for the 600th home run baseball, Marlins President David Samson quashed a budding controversy Tuesday over who initially possessed the memento when it landed in the right-field bleachers Monday night at Dolphin Stadium . "We have video confirming he caught the ball," Samson said, of the Marlins ...
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Off Topic: The Griffey Ball
MLB Rumors - MLBTradeRumors.com — ... The ball might be worth anywhere from $15,000 to $100,000.  For many people, that's a life-changing amount of money.  A down payment on a new house, maybe.  Joe is right to take his time with this choice, and he's under no moral obligation to give up the ball for some signed Reds bats and jerseys.  He doesn't owe it to baseball to give it up.  If anything, baseball owes him.  He's a Marlins season ticket holder. ...

Stadium News - Sort of
FishStripes — ... The Marlins are moving forward in trying to get the stadium construction firms signed on . The Marlins announced Tuesday they are entering into negotiations with veteran stadium builder Hunt Construction Group, of Arizona, and Fort Lauderdale-based Moss & Associates to manage the construction of their planned ballpark at the site of the Orange Bowl in Miami. The joint venture will work with sports architect H.O.K. Sport on the $515 million project. Presumably, the contract will contain lots of ...

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