Everybody has their opinions of Barry Bonds inevitably passing Hank Aaron's career homerun record of 755. I'll abstain from that argument for a moment, and look at another stat.
Aaron also holds the career record for total bases -- a record which I think is quite underrated (got that, Jayson?), and one could argue a more significant record than 755 HR. It's clearly a more accurate depiction of a player's overall offensive prowess than HR alone.
Bonds is currently fifth on the records of career TB, soon to pass Ty Cobb for fourth. But to put things into perspective, he would need to hit 250 more homeruns, walk 1000 more times, or any combination of those two, in order to catch Aaron's record for total bases.
In fact, Henry's record of 6,856 Total Bases is so unreachable that second-place on the TB list (Stan Musial with 6,134) is more than 12 miles' worth of base-running behind him.
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Preach on, Brother!
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