Looking for the Bonds that Tie: When will Barry Tie Hank Aarons Record?
By Carol-Ann Rudy TicketNews.com The challenge? Match and break a record held by Henry Aaron that has stood for thirty-one years. For the rest of us, the challenge is predicting when it will take place. Banners run across the bottom of newscast screens keeping us up to date. The Internet has a profusion of websites dedicated to it. You can even go to websites that feature an algorithm so you can join the frenzy and make your own prediction. Articles bloom in the print media. . . . (Photo by Ben Margot / AP) It seems a foregone conclusion that Barry Bonds will tie Henry (Hank) Aaron’s record. Saturday, May 5, brought Bonds’ tenth home run of the season against the Philadelphia Phillies, bringing his career home run number to 744, eleven short of Aaron’s record of 755. At this writing, TicketNews.com still holds to June 16 as the day of the tie. Bonds also tied the record with Aaron and Mays for the 2,147th run of his career, as well as 1,952 RBIs, ranking him in fourth place ahead of St
