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Bonds tested positive for steroids in 2001. Or so prosecutors say.

Federal prosecutors in San Francisco say Barry Bonds tested positive for steroids just one month after hitting his record 73-rd homerun of the 2001 season.

Bonds Nailed With Perjury Charges

Never saw this coming. After all, doesn't everyone's head swell to grotesque proportions naturally over time?

Bonds Indicted By BALCO Federal Grand Jury

SAN FRANCISCO -- Major League Baseball's all-time home run king Barry Bonds was indicted Thursday on perjury and obstruction justice charges, according to KTVU reporter Rita Williams.

The five-count indictment -- four counts of perjury and one of obstruciton of justice -- capped one of the longest federal grand jury investigations in Northern California history -- a proceeding that introduced the sports world to the acronym BALCO (Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative) and led to the downfall of American track and field world and Olympic champions Marion Jones, Kelli White and Tim Montgomery.

It touched the NFL with several current and former players called to testify including former All-Pro linebacker Bill Romanowski.

It also sparked the ongoing debate surrounding Major League Baseball and its problems with athletes taking performance enhancing drugs. It's a debate that has gone to such lengths that the home run ball that Bonds ripped out of AT&T Park to break Hank Aaron's all-time record was headed to the Baseball Hall of Fame tattooed with an asterisk.

The charges against Bonds stem from his Dec.4, 2003 grand jury testimony when he allegedly testified that he did not knowingly take performance enhancing drugs.

Ster*id Freak B*nds Hits No. 756*

As America slept, steroid-drenched San Francisco Giants "slugger" B*rry B*nds surpassed Hank Aaron's alltime home run mark by hitting his 756th home run off Washington Nationals pitcher Mike Bacsik last night at AT&T Park.

B*nds slugs way past Aaron for home run record

SAN FRANCISCO -- The ball exploded off B*rry B*nds' bat, a small white sphere streaking through the dark San Francisco sky, headed for the right-center field seats and a hallowed place in baseball history.

It was 8:51 Tuesday, a night no one in the sellout crowd of 43,154 at AT&T Park would ever forget, a night to be lived and relived by word of mouth, digital camera and endless reels of highlight tape.

On a 3-and-2 pitch from Washington Nationals left-hander Mike Bacsik, B*nds, in his second game after tying Hank Aaron's career home run mark of 755, belted No. 756.

In this, his 23rd season in the major leagues, his 16th in a Giants uniform, the holder of the single-season home run record with 73 in 2001 and a record seven most-valuable player awards, B*nds added the final jewel to his home run crown.

A towering drive that has become B*nds' trademark, the ball, cheered on by a hysterical home crowd, traveled 435 feet before landing in a pile of straining arms and banging bodies, fans with visions of perhaps half a million dollars fighting for the souvenir of a lifetime.

Victor Conte was unavailable for comment.

Oddly enough, in the scrum for the ball, of all people, a New York Mets fan came up with it.

Queens native catches B*nds' No. 756

SAN FRANCISCO - Once Barry B*nds' 756th home run left the playing field, AT&T Park turned into a shrine for the new home run king, with nary a boo to be heard.

But the fan who caught the most valuable souvenir from this momentous event, hails from . . . Queens?

Mike Murphy, a 22-year-old from Queens, wore a Mets jersey as he prevailed in the battle for B*nds' home run ball.

According to the Giants, Murphy flew into town yesterday, purchased a ticket at the ballpark -- the club didn't know whether Murphy found a ticket from a scalper or acquired a standing-room-only ticket from the team -- and attended the game with a friend. He stopped here in San Francisco on his way to Australia.

Police escort the man who caught Barry B*nds' 756th home run ball.
(Lisa Blumenfeld/Getty Images)

In more important baseball news last night, the Yankees won, the Red Sox lost, and the once vaunted 14-game lead is now down to five.

Fear, loathing and panic grips Red Sawx Nation.