Fire A Family's Feud Over Sports Memorabilia

A Durham signed ball, worth about $10

An Illinois family is heading to court over a slimy series of incidents involving the signed baseballs a former White Sox board member left to his two sons.

The collection includes more than 200 balls signed by Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio and other greats, with a value in excess of $250,000. The trouble began when Ben Pogofsky noticed several balls were missing from the collection and had been replaced by relatively worthless balls, such as one signed by former Sox infielder Ray Durham. Turns out dozens of pricey balls had been swiped from Ben's Mother's house over several months by Brad Pogofsky, Ben's brother. Brad has since been charged with a felony and Ben got an order of protection prohibiting Brad from coming near him or his dog (we assume there was an incident with the dog).

This sounds a lot like another incident the HR Department recently discussed, involving Duke basketball season tickets, and it's no less disgusting. Maybe people are becoming greedier because of the economy, or maybe these people are just jerks. Probably some of both. Regardless, a judge should take away the tickets and the balls until these people can learn to play nicely.