This Day In Baseball
History: August 7, 2007
It was on this date in 2007 that
San Francisco left-fielder, Barry Bonds, became Major League Baseball’s
all-time home run king when he smashed a 3-2 pitch from Washington Nationals’
pitcher, Mike Bacsik, over the right-centre field wall at AT & T Park in
San Francisco. The solo shot came in the fifth inning of an 8-6 Giants’ loss
and was Bonds’ career 756th home run, passing the previous mark of
755 set by Milwaukee/Atlanta Braves outfielder Hank Aaron.
Bonds would retire at the end of
the season with 762 career dingers but is still awaiting entry into Baseball’s
Hall Of Fame, an honour he is deserving of, regardless of some people’s
objections.
Much debate has raged over the
last nine years about the legitimacy of Bonds’ record, a moot point as far as
I’m concerned. While there will always be controversy surrounding statistics
from the 1990s and early part of the last decade, any assumption that certain
players had an unfair advantage, without evidence, is purely hearsay.
So, love him or hate him, Barry
Bonds is baseball’s home run king, in both the single-season record books and
the career record books.
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