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Hank Aaron, Roger Maris faced real pressure.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
SAN FRANCISCO _ Everybody is talking about pressure as the morning sun warms the latest home-run race.
The pressure Mark McGwire overcame while chasing Roger Maris in 1998 and the pressure that will weigh on Barry Bonds if he continues to flirt with McGwire's single-season home run record.
It's a factor, sure, but if McGwire thought chasing Maris was pressure-packed, and if Bonds anticipates anxiety while pursuing McGwire, imagine what Hank Aaron and Maris must have felt while stalking the immortal ghost of Babe Ruth.
"There's not going to be that pressure now_not even close," said Giants manager Dusty Baker, who was in the on-deck circle when Aaron broke Ruth's record of 714 career home runs in 1974. "Our country ...
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