Barry Bonds' record-setting home run ignited a free-for-all over ownership of the baseball — and more important, the right to sell it. This is the absurd true story of a bleakly comic skirmish that ensued between two fans: the publicity-craving Alex Popov, and the more demure Patrick Hayashi — from the frightening melee in the bleachers through the trial, verdict and ultimate awarding of the historic ball. The film has all the ingredients of a detective story and an old-fashioned farce, as eyewitnesses and commentators weigh in. What at first seems to be a trivial incident somehow gains tremendous gravity: Up For Grabs becomes a sobering parable about a litigious society where things have clearly gone off the deep end.

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