Barry Bonds’ 73 home runs in a season

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In the Giants' first 50 games in 2001, Bonds hit 28 home runs, including 17 in May - a career high. He also hit 39 home runs by the All-star break (a major league record), hit a home run every 6.52 at-bats (breaking Mark McGwire's 1998 record of one home run per 7.2 at-bats), drew a major league record 177 walks, and had a .515 on-base average, a feat not seen since Mickey Mantle and Ted Williams over forty years earlier. Bonds' slugging percentage was a major league record .863 (411 total bases in 476 at-bats), and, most impressively, he ended the season with 73 home runs, a new major league record.

Niteowl049AAA-er

926 days ago

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This record means nothing to me...in my book Roger Maris still has the record of 61 in a season since everyone that has passed Maris has been linked to steroids in some way. Even Sosa refused to take a drug test when a Sports Illustrated writer challenged him to prove he wasn't on steroids.

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False ProphetAll-Star

926 days ago

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I'm not so quick to dismiss this great record. As we learned from the Duke Lacrosse case, there's a reason we have due process

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