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Will nothing stop Barry Bonds? Fans, players and managers alike want Bonds out of the game, but commissioner Selig might be too late to stop him from breaking the record

Mickey Mantle has become synonymous with injuries. Roger Maris and 61 home runs are also synonymous, but fans and the media rarely remember how often Roger was injured.

The Home Run is Baseball's Ultimate Moment. Here are the all of the numbers and records that you need to know about the long ball.

Hank Aaron was one of the best players ever to set foot on a baseball field. But when he approached Babe Ruth's all-time home run mark, he endured ugly, dangerous racism

Now that Barry Bonds is the all-time home run leader for Major League Baseball, no one seems to know if the record should count.

Maybe it was starting A.J. Burnett on short rest. Maybe it was just the Phillies incredible determination. Either way, the World Series is going back to Yankee Stadium.

Barry Bonds may have tied Babe Ruth for second place on the all-time home run list, but Major League Baseball fans are not celebrating.

Not long after Sammy Sosa became just the fifth member of the 600 home run club, everybody turned their eyes to the next man up: Ken Griffey, who now needs just 16 more.

From Frankie Frisch to Rogers Hornsby to Bob Gibson to Albert Pujols, the St. Louis Cardinals have given baseball some of its greatest players. Here's their record book.

Steroids and human growth hormones threaten to break the continuity of baseball history.

Barry Bonds is a free agent, and wants to keep playing. Will he and Sammy Sosa form an historic combo in Texas?

DiMaggio's record is the greatest hitting record of all, but for a few minutes, on a July afternoon, it appeared that the genuineness of the streak might be questioned.

With so many records shattered and so many tight pennant races that came down to the wire, the 2007 baseball season may have been among the best ever.

The 2007 baseball season was one for the ages. Records fell, milestones were met and front-runners collapsed. Here is a wrap-up on the NL's top hitters and pitchers.

Barry Bonds has problems: steroids, Balco, perjury, etc. Putting that aside for now, a review of the statistics shows that he is great, but he is still no Babe Ruth.

Now that Bonds has broken Hank Aaron's legendary home run record, it is time to decide who is the better baseball player.

Barry Bonds has set some remarkable records. What is notable is not the fact that he set them, but that he broke the old marks by such a wide margin.

Lou Gehrig was the MVP and Joe DiMaggio was the majors' top rookie, yet the possibility of a pay cut for Gehrig was not considered a ridiculous possibility.

Ford and Mantle had to promise the Yankees that they would be "good boys," obey the club's rules, not miss any trains or planes, and distinguish midnight from noon.

Statistical anomalies abound. Hack Wilson, Mark McGwire, Luis Gonzalez, and Barry Bonds had great home run seasons that seem like discrepant events.

Joe DiMaggio had a great sophomore season, the Yankees usually bludgeoned the opposition, but Gehringer was voted the Most Valuable Player.

Hank Aaron is known best for one thing: breaking Babe Ruth's long-standing all-time home run record and finishing his career with 755 home runs. But, he was so much more.

One day after his client helped the Yankees lose to the Cleveland Indians in the ALDS, Scott Boras says that A-Rod is worth between $500 Million and $1 Billion.

April is the cruelest month, or so wrote T.S. Eliot. For an embattled New York Yankee, however, April has been the most forgiving 30 days on the entire calendar.

Ken Griffey Jr. is just one home run away from hitting 600 in his career. The scary thing is that if he had stayed healthy, he would probably have a lot more.

Here is a comprehensive collection of career, season and single game hitting records by Major Leaguers from 1900 to the present.

Carl Hubbell's pitching feat against five future Hall of Famers beginning with Ruth and Gehrig helped make the All Star game the midsummer classic.

It's been said that truly great baseball players excel in the World Series. These players are the real cream of the crop among Fall Classic participants.

On August 10, 1969, Bobby Murcer, Thurman Munson, and Gene Michael Hit Consecutive Home Runs. It was the highlight of the Yankees' season and will never be forgotten.

Sammy Sosa was just another superstar who was headed to Cooperstown until someone leaked a 2003 anonymous drug testing report which cited a failed test by Sosa.

According to many, this was the greatest team in baseball history. Here is a brief summary of the players that led the team to eternal greatness.

With so many great seasons by some of the best MLB hitters to choose from, it's hard to narrow the best seasons ever down to just five. Here's a shot, though.

The 1961 Yankees were one of the best of all teams, but the 1962 Yankees are a forgotten World Championship team that didn't approach its previous season statististically

They have hit a lot of home runs over the years. But here, for your reading pleasure, are the ten greatest home runs ever hit by the New York Yankees.

Is it possible that some baseball players use Viagra? Is it possible that some players, especially pitchers, had their performances enhanced by using Viagra?

After his strife-filled, disappointing season in 2006, many thought A-Rod had fallen off the perch of the best player in baseball. They were wrong. He's still the best.

Mickey Mantle was one of the all-time greats in baseball history. As great as he was, some say he never reached his full potential. Here's a part of his story.

The Yankees' hitters, led by Gehrig, DiMaggio, Dickey and Lazzeri, were matched against Carl Hubbell and a great Giants' pitching staff.

Home runs and strikeouts are exciting. They keep casual fans interested because both are dramatic. They are fun.

The ever-widening steroids scandal in Major League Baseball threatens to do irreparable harm to the sport. Baseball faces huge challenges in the steroids era.

Here are the baseball's best defensive players by position over the the past 50 years, at least as far as the Rawlings Corporation is concerned.

A Sacramento lawyer who represented BALCO president Victor Conte pled guilty to leaking confidential Grand Jury testimony taken during the MLB steroid investigation.

With the addition of two more playoff rounds in 1969 and 1995, respectively, the postseason greatly expanded, and so did baseball's October record books.

The Phillies will win the NL East, Chase Utley will take the NL MVP, Mariano Rivera will finally get the AL Cy Young Award, and the Yankees will win the World Series.

When the story broke that Alex Rodriguez tested positive for steroids in 2003, his legacy was tarnished forever.

Amist controversary Barry Bonds is closing in on Hank Aarons home run record. With all the aligations of steroid use one must wonder. Did he cheat?

To be found guilty of perjury, the government must prove that the individual who testified under oath made at least one false statement and knew the statement was false.

For ten straight years the World Series was played in New York City, usually between two New York teams. DiMaggio, Robinson, Mays and Mantle were among the heroes.

A fan's picks for greatest baseball players of the 1900s in the National and American Leagues - Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Willie Mays, Cy Young, Lou Gehrig, Nolan Ryan and more

Baseball old timers long debated which of their idols was the all time best at first base. It looks as if today's fans will have a strong candidate of their own.