In effort to provide breath of fresh air from non-stop Olympic and Favre coverage, we’ve got an Animal Planet-esque photo essay to remind sports fans that Major League Baseball still plays regular season games this time of year.

Our buddy Kevin, a surviving SF Giants fan, recently paid his respects to Cooperstown and snagged us a few shots of Barry Bonds’ history-murdering No. 756 home run ball.

Aside from a few god awful mock simulations, this is the first I’ve seen of the actual ball on an actual display.

Evidently, Marc Ecko, a fashion designer who bought the ball, didn’t fuck around with Sharpies.

Ecko marked the ball with a “five-pronged asterisk dye-cut into the cowhide, from stitch-to-stitch where `Major League Baseball’ is printed,” according to the NY Daily News.