You can hear the hecklers clearly at a high school baseball game. The fans are few, the loud ones fewer.
Erik Goeddel certainly could. He was a star pitcher, bound for UCLA and eventually the Dodgers, but he was not spared from a few choice letters hollered by kids who had done their homework on him.
In 2007, when Bonds set the all-time home run record amid the controversy over whether a steroid-inspired asterisk should be attached, Goeddel was in high school.
David Goeddel is a world-renowned biotechnology pioneer, not that a 10-year-old would have thought of his father quite that way.