Oscar Gamble Society

The solution to the conundrum of Barry Bonds as home run king just came to me. Nobody without some sort of axe to grind seems to want to see Bonds break Aaron’s record. Yet barring some Act of God (hint, hint, Lord) later this year Bonds will hit his 756th career homer. But recall that Josh Gibson’s career home run total has never been definitively established. I say that absent evidence to the contrary, we agree to assume that during his career Gibson slugged a home run total equal to Bonds’, plus 1. Or would a desire to recognize a Negro League player as the all-time home run king just be another manifestation of childish racial resentments?

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