On this date, 2006: Barry Bonds homers to pass Babe Ruth
(WorldNews Sport)

(This story originally appeared in 2006) The moment was worth it, Barry Bonds said. It was worth, in the words of the man who posed the question, “whatever you’ve done, not done, anything in the past.” Bonds broke a tie with Babe Ruth for second place on baseball’s career home run list Sunday in the Giants’ 6-3 loss to the Colorado Rockies, launching a fourth-inning fastball from Byung-Hyun Kim over the center-field wall for No. 715. The validity of the moment went largely unquestioned by the 42,935 at AT&T Park, who stood and chanted the name of the left fielder and focal point of a steroid scandal. Fireworks exploded over the main scoreboard. Orange, black...