The Boston Red Sox and their former first baseman, Doug Mientkiewicz, have come to an agreement to send the ball from the final out of the 2004 World Series to the Hall of Fame.
The agreement ends a sometimes bitter legal fight over who rightfully owns the ball.
Pitcher Keith Foulke fielded the ball off the bat of Edgar Renteria on Oct. 27, 2004, and threw to Mientkiwicz for the final out of Boston's four-game sweep of the St. Louis Cardinals.
It was Boston's first World Series title since 1918.
Mientkiewicz held onto the ball and secured it in a safe deposit box and claimed it as his own, joking that it was his "retirement fund."
