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Waging war amid shadows: The saga of a Bonds jersey

By Scoop Jackson
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Monday, August 6, 2007

I brain wrestled for over a year about buying a Barry Bonds jersey. Worried about what it would mean. What it might say. But through thick and Nicole Richie, I had his back. As I should. So I went on a mission. 716. 717. 718. Watching what Aaron went through when I was a kid, a spot in my soul resented what Babe Ruth and "America's game" stood for. Made me feel like the part of the Constitution that considered my grandfather three-fifths of a human being. We'll call it defiance. I searched f ...

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