Why do we care if Selig is in attendance for 756?
July 26, 2007
Seriously people. I’ve heard people who seem to think that Bud Selig not being present for Bonds’ record-breaking homer would be horrible.
But everyone forgets that then-commissioner Bowie Kuhn wasn’t in attendance for Hank Aaron’s 715th home run. And that didn’t seem to take away from the moment or resonate in history.
Gilbert
Ben
July 27, 2007 at 4:07 am
Aside from thanking you for the kind link to my original entry, I suddenly remembered that A. Bartlett Giamatti, somehow, in the middle of the Pete Rose contretemps, made it to Oakland Coliseum to watch the game in which Nolan Ryan pumped strikeout number 5,000 through Rickey Henderson. (George Vecsey of The New York Times, in fact, writing a beautiful elegie for Giamatti, noted the occasion and alluded to some Oakland A’s thinking the commissioner was rooting a little too openly for Ryan.)