762 will be the answer to a common trivia question. That question, of course, is "what's the most home runs hit in a major league career?"
No team will touch Barry Bonds. He's been blacklisted as a steroid user and perjurer. Quite frankly, it looks good on him. He finished last season with 762 career dingers and that's where he'll stay.
I'll have no problem memorizing this number for future editions of Trivial Pursuit as it's the start of my childhood telephone number back in the days before we had to dial the area code for local calls.
Not that he deserves the exposure, but here's more Toronto Mike ramblings about Barry Bonds.
- Barry Bonds
- The 500 Club
- The 700 Club
- Now What?
- 715*
- Best Player Never To Win It All
- 740 and Counting
- And Barry Bonds Can't Play for Everyone
- 756 for Barry Bonds
- Innocence Indicted
- Erasing an Era
I miss the days when my heroes were disgraced for accepting money from boosters while in college. Those were far more innocent times.