Baseball has forever been known as America's pastime. Through the good times and bad times, baseball fans have always been their to cheer on their favorite team. This season it is no different with plenty of things to cheer and boo about. This year is sure to be one of the most eventful years ever to occur in baseball history. Whether it is the new arrivals to the game or ancient records being shattered it is sure to be an exciting season.
The home run record has always been one of the most coveted records of all time. The homerun record has been Hank Aaron's since April 8th 1974, the day in which he hit his 715Th homerun of his illustrious career. At the end of Aaron's career he had 755 homeruns a mark that seemed untouchable. This year however, we have a new and improved Barry Bonds who comes into this season with 735 homeruns, just 22 homeruns shy of breaking Hank Aaron's all time homerun record. This will be one of the most anticipated events of the season and is sure to be one marred by controversy over Barry Bond's ties to Balco.
This year it appears Boston fans have already caught on to the new baseball phenomenon sweeping the country. He is known in his homeland of Japan as Daisuke Matsuzaka, but here he is known only as Dice-K. Dice K was Boston's biggest purchase of the offseason and has already shown that he has the goods in spring training. Daisuke has a vast repertoire of pitches and is known for doing well in pressure situations. He is sure to be fun to watch as he battles the Royals in his first major league start on Thursday April 5Th.
This year we might also have to introduce a new member into the 3000 hits club as Craig Biggio try's to become the 27Th player to ever achieve that mark. Craig Biggio is just 70 hits shy of 3000. He will be starting his 20Th year in a Houston Astro uniform. Craig has always been the influence for the team having played his whole career as an Astro. This achievement is sure to be one of happiness for Craig, the Astros, and Astro fans everywhere.
As can be seen this year is sure to one of the most exciting baseball seasons of all time. Through the times of controversy and hardship though we can always be sure that the true baseball fans will always return to cheer for their favorite teams come October.