I am the nameless guest who posted earlier. Drop the records after 1998? How about we drop all the records before 1947? You want to talk about artificial? The true home run record will, probably never be broken but, of course, it doesn't really count because it belongs to Josh Gibson. This anti-Bond fervor is a derect result of his antipathy for sprortswriters, not his character. Pete Rose (before his little gambling problem) was lionized by the writers (as his numbers warrented) because he liked them, he was cooperative and he hung out with them after games. His personal life, his treatment of his wife and his disregard for his daughter and his drinking and his temper tantrums, went unreported in the "for he's a jolly good fellow" atmosphere. We have to realize that what we know is what we are told and we are not always told the unbiased truth.

                      Mike