* 2007 – Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants breaks baseball great Hank Aaron's record by hitting his 756th home run.

Barry Bonds is the all time record holder with 688 intentional bases on balls.

Barry Bonds has won the most often ( seven times ) and the most consecutively ( 2001 – 04 ).

Barry Lamar Bonds ( born July 24, 1964 ) is an American former Major League Baseball outfielder.

* List of milestone home runs by Barry Bonds

On March 30, 2006, as a response to the controversy of the use of performance-enhancing drugs and the anticipated career home run record to be set by Barry Bonds, Selig asked former senator George Mitchell to lead an independent investigation into the use of steroids in baseball's recent past.

Bud Selig also did not attend the San Francisco Giants ' baseball game on August 7 when Barry Bonds hit his record-breaking 756th home run ; after the event, Selig released a statement congratulating Bonds.

On November 15, 2007, attention was brought once again to Barry Bonds as he was indicted by a federal grand jury for perjury and obstruction of justice in connection to his testimony before the grand jury regarding the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative ( BALCO ), a San Francisco Bay area lab known to be involved in the distribution of steroids to professional athletes.

Since then, only Ted Williams ( 1960, 29 ), Dave Kingman ( 1986 ; 35 ), Mark McGwire ( 2001 ; 29 ), and Barry Bonds ( 2007 ; 28 ) have hit as many or more homers in their final season.

Barry Bonds holds the List of lifetime home run leaders through history | all-time home run record in Major League BaseballSadaharu Oh, pictured here in 2006, holds the officially verified all-time world home-run record outside of MLB ( Major League Baseball ).

* 1964 – Barry Bonds, American baseball player

On August 15, Thome hit 599th and 600th homerun at Comerica Park to become the eighth player in Major League history to hit 600 homeruns, joining Babe Ruth, Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa, Ken Griffey Jr., and Alex Rodriguez.

* Barry Bonds has been indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly perjuring himself in testimony before a grand jury in 2003 as part of the BALCO steroid scandal, in which he denied using any performance-enhancing drugs.

* 23-Bobby Bonds, former baseball player and father of San Francisco Giants ballplayer Barry Bonds.

However, he did not lead the league in any of those seasons ; in 2001, he finished behind Barry Bonds, who hit 73 homers, breaking the single-season home run record set by McGwire in 1998 ( 70 ).

Sosa became only the fifth man in history, following Babe Ruth, Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, and Barry Bonds, to hit 600 regular season home runs.

Before even hiring a new General Manager or officially being approved as the new owners, Magowan signed superstar free agent Barry Bonds ( a move which MLB initially blocked until some terms were negotiated to protect Lurie and Bonds in case the sale failed ).

1996 was highlighted by Barry Bonds joining the 40 – 40 club ( 42 HR, 40 SB, with 129 RBI, 151 BB and. 308 BA ).

In 1998, the Giants were fueled by good seasons from Jeff Kent and Barry Bonds, both with 30 + HR and 100 + RBI.

Rich Aurilia put up stellar numbers ( 37 HR, 97 RBI,. 324 BA ) in support of Barry Bonds, who once again gave fans something to cheer about as he hit 73 home runs, setting a new single-season record.

Some of the biggest stars of this era were Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Rick Barry, Dave Cowens, Julius Erving, Elvin Hayes, Walt Frazier, Moses Malone, Artis Gilmore, George Gervin, Dan Issel, and Pete Maravich.

" Community without propinquity ", coined by urban planner Melvin Webber in 1963 and " community liberated ," analyzed by Barry Wellman in 1979 began the modern era of thinking about non-local community.

Also during this era, the channel experimented with late night broadcasts at weekends, under the The End brand, anchored by Barry Murphy and Sean Moncrieff.

* November 22-In the words of HBO Boxing commentator, Barry Tompkins, And we have a new era in Boxing, when Mike Tyson becomes the youngest world Heavyweight champion in history, beating Trevor Berbick by knockout in round two to take the WBC world championship as Don King's Heavyweight tournament continues in Las Vegas.

The disco era was popularized by Barry White and Donna Summer, among others.

Of course today, these key 1930s events look different to careful scholars of the era ( see the work of Barry Eichengreen " Golden Fetters: The Gold Standard and the Great Depression, 1919 – 1939 " and " How to Prevent a Currency War ") in particular devaluations today are viewed by advanced scholars with far greater nuance.

Male soloists who characterized the pop music of the era included Barry Manilow, Eric Carmen, Leo Sayer, Shaun Cassidy and Rod Stewart.

Again, he made boxing history — this time by being the man who Tyson defeated for his first heavyweight title, symbolically bridging the eras of Ali and Tyson, as fight commentator Barry Tompkins said after the knockout: " And we have a new era in boxing!

Barry Letts, former producer of the series during the Jon Pertwee era, contributed to the Missing Adventures line.

Mardin, when producing the Bee Gees ' 1975 Main Course album track " Nights on Broadway " famously discovered the distinctive falsetto of Barry Gibb, which became a familiar trademark of the band throughout the disco era.

After he was found not guilty of murder in the subsequent trial, despite the fact that Wally West ( the then-Kid Flash and future Flash ) testified that Barry could have stopped Thawne without killing him, Barry went to the 30th century to retire and live with the resurrected Iris, as it was revealed she was really an inhabitant of that era sent back for protection and that her mind had been taken from the moment before death, only to later die during the Crisis on Infinite Earths.

The names of the " Crescents " harked back to the Georgian era, being named after architects of that time: Robert Adam Crescent, Charles Barry Crescent, William Kent Crescent and John Nash Crescent, together with Hawksmoor Close ( a small straight block of similar design attached to Charles Barry Crescent ).

Lydiard presided over New Zealand's golden era in world track and field during the 1960s sending Murray Halberg, Peter Snell and Barry Magee to the podium at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome.

Other key figures of this era include George S. Kaufman, George Kelly, Langston Hughes, S. N. Behrman, Sidney Howard, Robert E. Sherwood, and a set of playwrights who followed O ' Neill's path of philosophical searching, Philip Barry, Thornton Wilder ( Our Town ) and William Saroyan ( The Time of Your Life ).

Barry Bloom of MLB. com called Hoffman " the best National League closer of his era.

The Block of that era is featured prominently in several films, notably Barry Levinson's Liberty Heights and Diner, as well as Steve Yeager's independent feature drama On The Block, with Howard Rollins.

While the Hinchcliffe Era ( 1974 – 1977 ) is generally seen by fans and critics as the best era in the classic series run, the increasing horror elements and depictions of violence attracted much criticism, notably from Mary Whitehouse, who had previously attacked the Barry Letts era for shows like Terror of the Autons.

UNIT became a prominent feature of Doctor Who throughout The Third Doctor's era, when the series was produced by Sherwin's successor Barry Letts.

Together with then producer Barry Letts, he wrote four stories for the Jon Pertwee era on the programme: The Dæmons ( credited as Guy Leopold ); The Time Monster ; The Green Death ; and Planet of the Spiders, which was Pertwee's swan song.

In 1992, Barry Foster got the Bill Cowher era going in Pittsburgh after two seasons on the bench.

These tales often centered on larger-than-life characters such as Sherlock Holmes, famous detective of the times, Barry Lee, big time gang leader, Sexton Blake, Phileas Fogg, and other fictional characters of the era, such as Dracula, Edward Hyde, The Invisible Man, and many other fictional characters who often had exotic enemies to foil.