Babe

Bonds watch-- Homers needed to tie Babe Ruth: 3-- Yesterday: 1-for-2 with a pinch-hit, two-run homer in the ninth inning.

Bonds watch -- Homers needed to tie Babe Ruth: 3 -- Yesterday: 0-for-2, was hit on the right hand by a pitch and left after flying out in the sixth

Good morning -- Barry Bonds -- You think Babe Ruth would've skipped a chance to be in a home run derby at Yankee Stadium?

April 8 1974 Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves hit his 715th career home run in a game against the Los Angeles Dodgers, breaking Babe Ruth's record.

Sunday afternoons at Granddad's playing baseball may neve be the same, but the family of Ernest Gordon "Babe" Phelps need only look out in his Odenton back yard and close their eyes.It shall always be their field of dreams.For all of his 84 years, Babe, who died yesterday morning with Mabel, his wife of 62 years, at his bedside, lived in Odenton. He lost a yearlong bout with cancer."Our fondest memories will be playing baseball in Granddad's backyard every Sunday after church," said Craig Engler.