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Bonds gear hits Cooperstown
COOPERSTOWN - Excited kids in baseball caps swarmed around the helmets from Barry Bonds' home-run record at bats that went on display here Friday, while other fans showed the same sort of ambivalence that has dogged the slugger's career.
The helmet Bonds wore when he hit home run 755 to tie Hank Aaron's record - and the one he wore Tuesday as he hit record-breaking 756 - debuted under glass at the Hall of Fame early Friday. Also displayed were plate umpire John Hirschbeck's ball-strike clicker, a score sheet from the game and a page from the San Francisco Chronicle featuring a picture of Bonds raising his arms in exultation under the headline 'ALONE AT THE TOP.'
“This is him!” said 13-year-old Matthew Somerville of Suffield, Conn., as he quickstepped toward the display. Then he started shooting and narrating a short video: “This is the helmet Barry Bonds wore when he hit home run number 755 ...”
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