Legal Update: Taxing Bonds' Homerun Ball, Foul Ball Liability

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Published August 14, 2007 at 12:45 PM PDT

This story was published more than 17 years ago.

Will the person who caught Barry Bonds' record-breaking homerun ball be taxed on this valuable piece of sports history? Legal analyst Dan Eaton tells us why this prized baseball might not be a financi

Maureen Cavanaugh (Guest Host): What could be better at baseball game than to get lucky enough to catch a homerun ball? No, how about this: you catch a game-winning homerun ball.... no, no even better... you catch a record-breaking homerun ball. But, not just any record. You catch the homerun ball that smashes the existing career homerun record. Sounds great, right? Well, maybe. There are tax questions about the ball, liability questions about the scramble for the ball, and there can be both tax and legal questions about the ownership of the ball.

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Dan Eaton, These Days legal analyst