A Canadian company agreed yesterday to pay $30,000 - $1,000 each - for the 30 autographed baseballs consigned to a New Jersey auction house by the estate of Barry Halper, the legendary sports-memorabilia collector.
Yesterday, the disgraced hit king began selling balls signed "I'm sorry I bet on baseball" on his own Web site for $299 each, but the Canadian firm thinks the original balls are worth the extra money.
"These are the limited-edition balls," said Donna Montgomery, a spokeswoman for Entertainment Systems Inc., a British Columbia company that provides software and other products to online-gaming companies. "These are the originals."
Montgomery said the company will distribute the balls to loyal customers.
As the Daily News reported this week, Robert Edward Auctions of Watchung, N.J., obtained 30 of the inscribed balls from the estate of Halper, the New Jersey businessman and limited partner in the Yankees who died last year at 66.
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