Cash Money Life

I hope everyone had a safe and fun 4th! My wife and I went to a friend’s house out in the country where we had a grill out with a pot luck, a keg of beer for the adults, water guns and water balloons for the kids, and over $1,000 worth of fireworks for everyone. [...]

The Colorado Rockies voted to give a full playoff playoff share to the family of Mike Coolbaugh, a former coach in their minor league system who was killed earlier this season when he was struck by a foul ball during a minor league game. Coolbaugh was the first base coach when a batted ball struck [...]

The record breaking home run ball that Barry Bonds hit last month to break Hank Aaron’s 33 year old home run record was sold at auction this weekend for over $750,000.
Fashion designer Mark Ecko revealed today he was the winning bidder of the infamous baseball and has disclosed his plans - let the public decide [...]

The ball Barry Bonds hit to break the MLB home run record was sold at Auction for $752,467, exceeding pre-auction estimates of $500,000-600,000. That’s not a bad return for Matt Murphy, a 21 year old college student, who spent $100 (for a $12 ticket) to the go to the game in San Francisco in August.
While [...]

I have a confession. I have several thousand baseball cards sitting in my closet. What are they doing there, you ask? Nothing. They are sitting there gathering dust, waiting for me to pull them out again and relive my childhood.
I started collecting baseball cards in 1987, and I finished the summer after high school graduation [...]

Barry Bonds’ record breaking home run has been one of the biggest news items in the sports world this summer, at least in America. The controversy surrounding Bonds and the home run record will probably live on longer than he will. And that’s fine. Records are made to be broken, and they are also made [...]

Matt Murphy, a 21 year old college student from NY, caught what is probably the most historic baseball in MLB history - the ball Barry Bonds hit to break Hank Aaron’s 33 year old MLB home run record. This is an historic baseball, and one that just about any collector would love to have in [...]

What? That’s right, sports fans (and fans of esoteric tax laws). The Associated Press reports that Mr. Matt Murphy, the lucky fan who caught Barry Bonds’ historic record breaking home run ball, will owe taxes on the estimated value of the baseball regardless of whether he sells or keeps the ball. Why? Because it is [...]

Barry Bonds just broke the all-time Major League Baseball (MLB) home run record, which was previously held by Hank Aaron. Over the course of his career, Barry Bonds has hit 756 home runs, and the number is sure to grow by the time he retires.
Now an interesting question arises. How much is the home run [...]

I am a big baseball fan, and I enjoy going to a couple games every season. There is a Major League Baseball team about an hour an a half away, but there is a minor league team only 20 minutes away. I go to the minor league games a lot more often than the [...]

Major League Baseball is auctioning pink baseball bats and other memorabilia from this past Sunday’s Mother’s Day games. All proceeds from the sales of these items goes to support the Susan G. Komen Foundation, which fights breast cancer through scientific research, treatment, and public awareness.
Over 200 MLB players used pink bats, pink wristbands, or other [...]

Roger Clemens announced this past weekend that he would return from his ‘retirement’ to play one more season with the New York Yankees. His announcement ended months of speculation about which team he would play for; the Houston Astros and Boston Red Sox were the only other teams in the running for his services. My [...]

Own a piece of American history and support the Jackie Robinson foundation by bidding on a ‘Jackie Jersey’ worn during an official MLB game April 15th, 2007.
Last month Ken Griffey Jr. called Bud Selig, the Commissioner of MLB with a simple proposal: that he be allowed to wear Jackie Robinson’s #42 on his jersey [...]

In my recent post, I wrote about how much professional athletes earn. Not the star players, but the role players. This post covers how much these athletes earn during their pension years. (Some information is not readily talked about by various players associations and was taken from varying sources. Some sources contradicted each other, but [...]

You hear all the time about the multi-million dollar salaries star athletes earn every year. And you can’t watch 15 minutes of golf without hearing about how much Tiger Woods earns in endorsement contracts.
But what about the little guy? How about the left handed middle relief specialist that faces one batter a game and only [...]