What record is Barry Bonds about to break?
Chasing the all-time home run record http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Bonds On May 7, 2006, Bonds drew within one home run of tying Babe Ruth for second place, hitting his 713th career home run into the second level of Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia, off of pitcher Jon Lieber in an ESPN nationally-televised game in which the Giants lost to the Philadelphia Phillies. The towering home run — one of the longest in Citizens Bank Park’s two season history, traveling an estimated 450 feet — hit off the facade of the third deck in right field and was Bonds’ first “pulled” home run of the 2006 season. Curiously, and perhaps revealingly, the jeers from the Philadelphia crowd that had haunted Bonds earlier that night turned noticeably into cheers as he completed his swing, watched the flight of the ball, rounded the bases, and touched home plate, all this to flashbulbs going off throughout the stands. The mixed and often paradoxical reaction to Bonds’ impending achievement exemplifies th
