Barry Bonds - Chasing History or Listening to "His" Story
Chasing History or Listening to His Story by Skip Pulley Is creating a scapegoat the treatment for guilt or part of the cause? The cure is accountability. I had been previously criticized for my stance on defending MLB superstar Barry Bonds in his chase for the all time home run record held by Hank Aaron. This has nothing to do with my personal opinion of Bonds (which is low) but my love of the sport and my refusal to play the all American blame-game. Many of the fans, writers and players who attack Bonds’ status and credibility often make an unfair comparison to the man whose record he is about to break. This is a last ditch effort to assuage the inherited guilt of racism and the “sins of the father” most notably segregation. Henry Louis Aaron was born on February 5, 1934 in Mobile, Alabama. No one under the age of 40 can even imagine the adverse conditions he had to endure as a young black man to play the game that he loved so dearly. In High school, he was such a proficient ba...