The ball was sold at an auction in December 2003, and was purchased for $113,824.16 by Harry Caray’s Restaurant Group. On February 26, 2004, it was publicly detonated by Academy Award winning special effects expert Michael Lantieri. In 2005, the remains of the ball were used by the restaurant in a pasta sauce. While no part of the ball itself was in the sauce, the ball was boiled and the steam captured, distilled, and added to the final concoction.
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The final fate of the Steve Bartman ball.
Baseball fans are really weird.
