Five innings into the home opener in 2004, Barry Bonds got the pitch he was waiting for. He dropped his bat, arched his back and watched as the ball sailed over the cheering fans in the arcade and toward McCovey Cove, splashing down just in front of a man in a blue kayak.
"There it goes!" Jon Miller yelled into his microphone. "And that is number 660. He has tied Willie Mays."
As Bonds celebrated, his godfather met him in front of the dugout. Willie Mays was, appropriately, holding an Olympic torch he had used during a relay two years earlier.