With each home run the past two seasons, Barry Bonds has inched ever so closer to a hallowed baseball benchmark – the 755 home runs hit by Hank Aaron during his career.
The Andrews Raid, also known as The Great Locomotive Chase, ultimately failed. But days later, the Southern Confederacy newspaper proclaimed it “the most extraordinary and astounding adventure of the war.” More than an “astounding adventure,” the raid was near genius.
Mark McGwire’s 70th home run ball from his record-breaking 1998 season contains a synthetic rubber ring or spring — a material not outlined in official Major League Baseball specifications.