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On this date, April 6: How Giants rookie knocked Hank Aaron from baseball’s top spot

Just like his superstar Giants teammate Barry Bonds, David Aardsma once knocked Hall of Famer Hank Aaron from the top spot in Major League Baseball’s record book after decades spent being No. 1.

Unlike Bonds, though, there wasn’t a hint or suspicion of anything unnatural about the way the then-rookie relief pitcher dropped the great Aaron down a notch in baseball annals. A check of Aardsma’s birth certificate would have confirmed that.

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Aardsma got the better of Aaron three years before Bonds, amid performance-enhancing drug accusations, became the sport’s all-time home run king by launching career homer No.