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  • Says Mr. Lipton, "Home-run baseballs, like frequent-flyer miles and employer-provided cellphones, seem to be sacrosanct."

    Tax Issues Surround A-Rod's Ball 2010

  • Gates predicted that "Gatsby" [which opened Dec. 20 at the Metropolitan Opera] would be awarded the "Media's Home-run Title" over Lyric's vastly successful Oct. 9 world-premiere production of "A View From the Bridge," composed by William Bolcom and based on Arthur Miller's drama, "if only because the Lyric Opera's not the Met and Arthur Miller's not Fitzgerald."

    Globalization's Dark Side 2008

  • You have Hank Aaron with the home-runs, the Home-run King.

    CNN Transcript Jul 6, 2002 2002

  • SAN FRANCISCO Reuters - Home-run king Barry Bonds avoided a prison sentence on Friday over a single criminal conviction related to an investigation of steroids in sports, a punishment one prosecutor called a slap on the wrist.

    Reuters: Top News 2011

  • SAN FRANCISCO Reuters - Home-run king Barry Bonds avoided a prison sentence on Friday over a single criminal conviction related to an investigation of steroids in sports, a punishment one prosecutor called a slap on the wrist.

    Reuters: Top News 2011

  • Reporting from San Francisco- Home-run king Barry Bonds was convicted of obstruction of justice for impeding a grand jury investigation into illegal steroid distribution, closing a sordid chapter in a scandal that ensnared some of baseball's greatest players.

    latimes.com - News 2011

  • Home-run king Roger Maris was born here before growing up in Fargo, N.D. Vincent Bugliosi, who prosecuted Charles Manson, called Hibbing home as did Gary Puckett, who went on to record a few hits with his band, the Union Gap.

    Thestar.com - Home Page Garth Woolsey 2011

  • April 5 Bloomberg -- Home-run king Barry Bonds may testify in his own defense, one of his lawyers said after prosecutors finished presenting seven days of testimony from more than a dozen witnesses including baseball players who said they received steroids from Bonds's ex-trainer.

    BusinessWeek.com -- Top News 2011

  • March 31 Bloomberg -- Home-run king Barry Bonds's former personal shopper testified that she saw the baseball player's trainer give him an injection in his navel in 2002.

    BusinessWeek.com -- Top News 2011

  • SAN FRANCISCO Reuters - Home-run king Barry Bonds avoided a prison sentence on Friday over a single criminal conviction related to an investigation of steroids in sports, a punishment one prosecutor called a slap on the wrist.

    Reuters: Press Release 2011

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