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Controversy to hover over Barry Bonds' pursuit of home run record.(Warm Up Tosses)(baseball records)
BEFORE LONG, BARRY BONDS WILL RESUME HIS MARCH TOWARDS ONE OF MAJOR league baseball's most revered records.
The record--755 lifetime home runs--was established by Hank Aaron in 1976 when Aaron wrapped up his distinguished, 23-year Hall of Fame career.
It remains a monumental legacy of skill and endurance by a man who was subjected to some nasty, racial harassment along the way to creating it, especially in surpassing Babe Ruth's long-held mark of 714 over-the-fence swats.
Bonds has 703 home runs going into the 2005 season, so he faces a challenging task to reach Aaron's total this year, but his pursuit, nonetheless, promises to be a hot media topic in the months ahead.
As such, it will be accompanied by controversy, stirred up by skeptics who claim Bonds in recent times, despite repeated denials, has knowingly taken steroids that helped boost his power and consequently his home run output.
Nonsense, says Aaron who insists, "A guy can take steroids, drugs, whatever. He still has to be able to hit that Roger Clemens 96 mph fastball.
"Steroids don't help you hit that fastball."
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