Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
August 08, 2007
The Story

Henry Schulman covered the event for the San Francisco Chronicle. There's lots here, including the tribute from Aaron, a call from the commissioner, the person who retrieved the ball (wearing a Mets jersey, no less) and this bit of trivia:

Bonds also got a visit from Bacsik, who congratulated the new home run king and got an autographed bat in return.

Bacsik's father, also named Mike Bacsik, pitched for Texas and Minnesota from 1975-80. On Aug. 23, 1976, in a Rangers-Brewers game, the elder Bacsik faced Aaron two months after The Hammer hit his final career home run. Aaron singled off him in two at-bats. Thus, the Bacsiks became the only father and son each to face different hitters with 755 home runs.

"If my dad was gracious enough to give up a home run," Bacsik said, "we both would have given up 756."


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has this article been getting any attention? interesting stuff...

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003621797

Posted by: amos at August 8, 2007 12:15 PM

Will Carroll had a response to that article at BP and he was pretty dismissive of it.

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=6557

Posted by: saulpanzer at August 8, 2007 01:51 PM
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