Brad
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That's interesting about PR, because Bonds is supposed to treat people around him quite well and there were comments that Aaron was rather crude with people off the field. Perhaps Bonds is a "dick" because the media wanted him to look that way and Aaron is a darling because the media wanted him to look that way.
I was under the impression that Aaron was a bit cold around the time he broke Ruth's record because he received loads of death threats. Think about it. A black man in the Deep South about to break a mythical record set by an oft revered white man. I've read that he would not ride in a convertible then for fear of his life, and still won't to this day. His daughter, who was in school at Tennesee at that time, also had to have a bodyguard at all times. Barry hasn't, to my knowledge, experienced similar treatement in his run for the record.