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Article: Mays pushes Bonds toward new goals

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April 13, 2004
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SAN FRANCISCO -- For history's sake, let's hope Willie Mays doesn't stop supplying Barry Bonds sage advice now that the two men have finally made their rarefied rendezvous at career home run No.660.

Thankfully, after Bonds launched his latest poke for posterity into McCovey Cove on Monday afternoon -- a certifiably prodigious blow for the books -- it didn't sound as if Willie will be stepping out of Bonds' spotlight even though he is no longer a milestone target.

Near the end of the postgame press conference, when Bonds effectively swung and missed at a question regarding what comes next in his phenomenal baseball career, Mays quickly grabbed a microphone and pinch-hit a more ...

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