Weekly Media Column: ESPN's Gomez almost missed Bonds' homer

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The Big Lead found this 8/13/2007 on www.dailybreeze.com [flag]
While Barry Bonds chased Henry Aaron, Pedro Gomez chased Barry Bonds. But by the time the San Francisco Giants slugger broke Aaron's career home run record with No. 756 at AT Park on Tuesday night, there was no story really left to break that night for the ESPN reporter. The world knew about it instantaneously. If Bonds had known enough to wait just one more day to make history, Gomez, who had ... [link]

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Pedro Gomez Nearly Missed It
Published 8/13/2007 by TheBigLead at The Big Lead
... ESPN’s intrepid Pedro Gomez, the man with the awkward assignment of following around the every move of Barry Bonds for the last few years, nearly missed the money shot. Which would have been depressing for him, but comical for the rest of us. ...

Pedro Gomez Almost Missed Barry Bonds' Historic Blast
Published 8/13/2007 by PostmanR at FanHouse
... ' every move, the Daily Breeze alerts us to the fact that Gomez, for all the work he's put into the Bonds story since January of 2005, almost missed Barry's No. 756. ...

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