Barry vs. the Babe: who's the better hitter? Now baseball fans can slug it out with better stats.(Sports)(Barry Bonds, Babe Ruth www.baseball-reference.com) From: Popular Mechanics | Date: April 1, 2005| Author: St. John, Allen | COPYRIGHT 2005 © Hearst Communications, Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

When Hank Aaron broke Babe Ruth's career home run record 31 years ago, baseball fans could watch the instant replay and then look up both players' home run totals in Macmillan's 1000-page Baseball Encyclopedia. Any further analysis of the two home run kings involved a pencil, a scratchpad and a slide rule. But when Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants bats for Babe Ruth's record a few weeks from now, it'll be a whole new ballgame for stat-obsessed fans.

This is the be...

Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles from HighBeam Research

	Bonds vs. Ruth is hard to nail down.(Knight Ridder Newspapers) Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service ; Byline: Neil Hayes SAN FRANCISCO _ Hank Aaron believes Barry Bonds is better than Babe Ruth. With all due respect to Hammerin' Hank, a man who demands respect not only for what he accomplished but what he endured, he's treading on shaky ground here. As a young boy, Jack McKeon actually saw Ruth
	Bonds vs. Ruth is hard to nail down. Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, CA) ; Byline: Neil Hayes SAN FRANCISCO _ Hank Aaron believes Barry Bonds is better than Babe Ruth. With all due respect to Hammerin' Hank, a man who demands respect not only for what he accomplished but what he endured, he's treading on shaky ground here. As a young boy, Jack McKeon actually saw Ruth
	712 down, 3 to go; Bonds hits town chasing Ruth, but steroid scandal looms The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ; ... No. 3 is not so bad," she said. "That's the number he wore." Copyright 2006, Journal Sentinel Inc. All rights reserved. (Note: This notice does not apply to those news items already copyrighted and received through wire services or other media.)
	LEGENDS STILL COUNT: Barry Bonds is challenging history, a piece of Americana perhaps, as he approaches Babe Ruth's home run total. Saint Paul Pioneer Press (St. Paul, MN) ; ... gwittenmyer@pioneerpress.com. Copyright (c) 2006, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn. Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News. For information on republishing this content, contact us at (800) 661-2511 (U.S.), (213) 237-4914 (worldwide), fax (213) 237-65 ...
	Forget numbers, Bonds no Ruth Oakland Tribune ; SAN FRANCISCO -- Barry Bonds has caught Babe Ruth. Barry Bonds has passed Babe Ruth. That's what history will record one day soon. Which begs the question, by whose measuring stick? For those of us who still care deeply about how the game of baseball -- our oldest and most cherished game -- is
	Barry vs. the Babe: who's the better hitter? Now baseball fans can slug it out with better stats.(Sports)(Barry Bonds, Babe Ruth www.baseball-reference.com) Popular Mechanics ; When Hank Aaron broke Babe Ruth's career home run record 31 years ago, baseball fans could watch the instant replay and then look up both players' home run totals in Macmillan's 1000-page Baseball Encyclopedia. Any further analysis of the two home run kings involved a pencil, a scratchpad and a
	Bonds passes Ruth on home run listBaseball International Herald Tribune ; Joe Lapointe International Herald Tribune 05-30-2006 George Herman Ruth still leads Barry Lamar Bonds in catchy nicknames. Ruth was the Babe or the Bambino, or the Sultan of Swat. He was a Yankee legend. Bonds is still just Barry, the veteran slugger of the San Francisco Giants.But Bonds is ahead
	History in the breaking; Bonds is an entertainer like Ruth was, and he's hated by many fans like Aaron was during his pursuit of the Babe's record Chicago Sun-Times ; Barry Bonds already is talking about passing the home-run torch to Alex Rodriguez, who hasn't even hit his 500th. For that matter, Bonds hasn't even passed Henry Aaron's mark of 755 yet. This is what has become of what many consider the most hallowed record in sports -- major-league baseball's
	Bonds Hits 714th Homer, Ties Ruth; Giants Slugger Is 41 Short of Aaron's Record The Washington Post ; ... the fan, Tyler Snyder, laughed. "Hell no," he told the Reuters news agency. "I hate that guy." Such were the mixed feelings surrounding ... soon as it left my hand that it was probably going to be bad news," he said. Bonds jumped on it, mustering the kind of quick-wristed ...
	Ruth's family wants no part of honoring Bonds. Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) ; Byline: Fred Mitchell CHICAGO _ Wrigley Field has been described and romanticized as a baseball sanctuary. On April 28, the family of American sports icon Babe Ruth will seek such rare solitude at the Friendly Confines, just about the time the Giants' Barry Bonds figures to be matching or

See all results.