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Barry Bonds as a New York baseball player??

By Joe Pickering Jr.

Hey New York Fans,do you realize that if the old New York Giants had not moved out of New York that Barry Bonds would be playing in New York! That means that New York would have cornered the market on home run kings. The Babe,the Mick,Maris, and even Josh Gibson played in New York Stadium. In anticipation of Barry Bonds breaking the record, I thought about many of the factors which make up the idea of the Greatest Home Run King...a difficult pick! It is even more difficult to put it into a song but I did it.

Recently, Mike Silva of NY Baseball Talk Baseball on 1240 AM WGBB interviewed me re: my music and soon to be released CD Baseball Songs Sports Heroes 2. which will shortly be on sale on CD Baby and other places. Parts of three songs were played on the radio show: Yankee Stadium, God IS a Mets Fan and The Greatest Home Run King. I thought I would share this song lyric with you. A big thank you to Phil Speranza for making a great quote on my newest CD plus playing my Yankee Stadium song on http://www.behindthebombers.com . Hope you all enjoy it!

THE GREATEST HOME RUN KING

BARRY BONDS IS THE NEW HOME RUN KING TODAY

NO ONE IN THE MAJORS HAS PUT MORE AWAY

HANK AARON’S LIFETIME RECORD IS SURPASSED

BUT NO ONE CAN SURPASS HANK AARON’S CLASS

HANK HIT HOMERS THE OLD FASHION WAY

TO LEFT FIELD, RIGHT FIELD AND STRAIGHT AWAY

WHAT WOULD BARRY DO IF HE PLAYED IN HANK’S DAY?

WOULD HE HIT AS MANY HOMERS THAT’S HARD TO SAY?

WHO’S THE GREATEST HOME RUN KING?

CAN ONE TRULY MEASURE SUCH A THING?

DIFFERENT TIMES, ERAS, PARKS, RULES AND MORE

DIFFERENT TRAINING AND THE WAY TEAMS TOUR

CHORUS

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED WHO WOULD TRULY BE

THE GREATEST HOME RUN KING IN HISTORY?

BARRY, BABE, HANK, JOSH OR OH TAKE YOUR PICK

GIVEN HIS MIGHTY HOMERS SOME SAY THE MICK

BABE RUTH PITCHED YEARS MOWING DOWN THE SIDE

HE HAD FEWER CHANCES TO BELT THE OLD HORSEHIDE

BABE HIT MORE HOMERS THAN TEAMS IN HIS ERA

THE T-REX OF HIS TIME BABE WAS A HOME RUN TERROR

BARRY’S HIT MORE HOMERS THAN ANYONE YOU KNOW

EXCEPT JOSH GIBSON AND SADAHARU OH

JOSH WAS BARRED FROM THE MAJORS BECAUSE OF HIS SKIN

WITH EIGHT HUNDRED OR MORE HOMERS IS HE THE KINGPIN?

OH PLAYED BIG TIME BALL IN THE LAND OF THE RISING SUN

HE SMASHED MANY MORE HOMERS THAN ANYONE

OH THOUGH IS NOT IN THE HALL OF FAME

WITH EIGHT HUNDRED SIXTYEIGHT HOMERS THAT’S A SHAME!

REPEAT CHORUS

FADE

WHO’S THE GREATEST HOME RUN KING OF ALL?

TAKE YOUR PICK FANS, IT’S REALLY YOUR CALL!