On August 7, 2007, Barry Bonds broke Hank Aaron’s record of 756 career home runs. He was 43. Bonds had been playing under a cloud ever since it was reported that he’d used performance enhancing steroids beginning in 1998.
When he was the same age former Giant Willie Mays was retired from baseball and seen most often sitting on a golf cart in ads for Interwoven Socks. Say hey!
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Friday, August 7, 2009
Saturday, July 25, 2009
The Splendid Splinter
On July 25th, 1966, Ted Williams was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. He was 47. In his speech he made a point of paying tribute to all of the Negro League stars “who are not here only because they weren’t given the chance.” Ted Williams appears four times in A Book of Ages.
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