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Barry Bonds sets a new home run record...
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Barry Bonds sets a new home run record...

Item # 724789 ·
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, Oct. 6, 2001  The front page is almost totally devoted to Barry Bonds breaking the single-season home run record with a very dramatic photos & large headline (#71 and #72). Great to have this report in a San Francisco newspaper despite the later controversy concerning use of performance-enhancing drugs.
Present are sections A and F (the front and sports sections), in nice condition.

Background: The October 5, 2001 game where Barry Bonds hit his 71st and 72nd home runs to surpass Mark McGwire’s single-season record remains one of the most historically significant yet polarizing moments in baseball history. Occurring less than a month after the September 11 terrorist attacks, the chase offered a grieving nation a powerful, unifying distraction, culminating in a dramatic, packed Pacific Bell Park witnessing history in real time. While the achievement initially marked the pinnacle of baseball's offensive explosion in the turn-of-the-century "Boom Period," it later became the defining symbol of the sport's controversial "Steroid Era." Despite the subsequent cloud of performance-enhancing drug allegations that complicated Bonds' legacy and kept him out of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, the event fundamentally altered the record books, permanently shifted how modern athletic excellence is scrutinized, and represented the absolute zenith of individual offensive dominance in Major League Baseball.
Category: The 21st Century
Price
$33
100% Authentic: Original printing, never a reproduction.