600th home run of A-Rod will not be tainted by past steroid admission
by admin ~ August 15th, 2010.
The about-to-come 600th home run by Alex Rodriguez, popularly known as A-Rod, will not be devalued by his admission about use of steroids in the past according to some baseball fans and sluggers.
Rodriguez’s image is not tarnished like a Barry Bonds, as per Arlan Ettinger, President of Guernsey’s auction house.
Brandon Steiner, head of Steiner Sports Memorabilia, predicted A-Rod’s historic blast, said that the new mark by A-Rod will carry a similar price to his 500th: $103,579.
From NYdailynews.com:
“My feeling is this one will be about the same,” said Steiner. “When it comes to these record breakers, people tend to move toward these items.”
A-Rod enters tonight’s game against the Angels with 598 homers. Steiner said he didn’t see the price for the historic homer going much higher than No. 500.
“Things have changed a little bit since the last one,” Steiner said. “Assume the economy - and other factors.”
A-Rod would become only the seventh player to hit 600 homers, albeit as a charter member of baseball’s steroid generation.
He insists he’s been clean since 2003, and Ettinger said most people are beyond linking Rodriguez with steroids.
A-Rod will become only the 7th player in history of the game to reach the mark of 600 home runs though some baseball lovers consider him as a charter member of steroid generation of the game.
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