Barry Bonds captures baseball's all-time home run record
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds surpassed Hank Aaron as Major League Baseball's all-time home run leader here Tuesday with his 756th career homer.
Bonds, 43, clubbed a 3-2 pitch by Washington Nationals left handed pitcher Mike Bacsik into the right field seats with one out and nobody on in the fifth inning to break the record Aaron had held for more than 30 years.
He had tied Aaron's cherished mark of 755 on Saturday in San Diego.
The seven-time National League Most Valuable Player's 22nd homer of the year sparked a delirious celebration by San Francisco fans, who have cheered their hero throughout his chase for history despite the cloud of steroid suspicions that have cast as shadow over his achievements.
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