* What’s going to happen when Barry Bonds passes Henry Aaron’s career record of 755 home runs? Nothing – among those who can think for themselves. No intelligent and honest person can possibly give Bonds the kind of respect home run champions have received since Babe Ruth’s day. Aaron will continue to be our champion, and Bonds can retire so we can watch his body deteriorate from the abuse of steroids and growth hormones.

MICHAEL J. GORMAN
Whitestone

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* Barry Bonds will break Hank Aaron’s home run record, no doubt. However, that is as far as it goes. Bonds will never have the class, personality and leadership that Aaron provided his teams. Bonds comes across as arrogant and conceited. In addition, Bonds is disliked by his teammates, as opposed to Aaron, who always had the utmost respect of his teammates.

ANDREW GANDOLFO
Brooklyn

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* I find it saddening that Barry Bonds was on the verge of breaking the all-time home run record under a cloud of suspicion and illegitimacy while Cal Ripken Jr. and Tony Gwynn received far less coverage while preparing for their Hall of Fame induction last week. Don’t we as baseball fans value consistency, longevity and sheer class over the instant gratification of the monstrous home run?

MATTHEW LEVINE
Manhattan

Class action

* To quote Kevin Kernan in his column about Barry Bonds’ jealousy of Alex Rodriguez [“Green Giant,” The Post and nypost.com, July 29]: “When A-Rod someday wears the home-run crown, it will be a much better and classier fit for baseball.” Rodriguez a “classier fit” than Bonds? What a choice: between a guy who has cheated with steroids and a guy who has openly cheated on his wife. Class indeed.

LAWRENCE FISHBERG
The Bronx

Bronx cheers

* Yankees fans booing Roger Clemens for a bad outing? They should have been booing the manager who left him in for nine hits and eight runs in the second inning, when he clearly did not have his stuff or command. Looking for somebody else to boo? How about GM Brian Cashman for allowing the great Eric Gagne to further bolster the best bullpen in baseball in Boston?

LANCE BARNETT
Austin, Texas

Don’t get well soon

* Jason Giambi, please, take your time coming back. In fact, take the rest of the year off to recuperate! The Yankees have found youthful exuberance, hustle and desire from their younger players which has helped rejuvenate this team. Hopefully the Yankees’ recent strong play will continue and during the playoff push, we will see less of Giambi.

CHRIS DALEY
Rockville Centre, N.Y.

Not Glav at all

* Tom Glavine deserves better than what the first-place Mets gave him Tuesday night – a game that was supposed to be career win No. 300. God help us at the end of September!

PAUL FITZPATRICK
Saugerties, N.Y.

Little leagues

* Much of the media seems to be ignoring one of the most overwhelming issue with the crooked NBA referee story: Why didn’t the NBA’s internal security, rather than the FBI, discover Tim Donaghy’s alleged transgressions? Similarly, where was the NFL on Michael Vick? I’m starting to wonder if some of these league honchos don’t function more like the classic Hollywood studio publicists of the 1930s and 1940s, whose biggest job wasn’t getting their stars’ names in the papers, but keeping their troubles out of the nation’s eye.

JIM BURNS
Valley Stream, N.Y.

Slat’s more like it

* It’s a good thing Rangers GM Glen Sather has decided that Sean Avery is in good standing and not a “detriment” to the team. If Sather hadn’t traded for Avery last season, the Rangers probably would not have made the playoffs. So it’s now money well spent.

TIM FARINA
Plantation, Fla.

Scarlet letter

* I want to thank you for The Post’s coverage of the Rutgers football team. It is a pleasure to be able to follow my university’s team while reading your paper on my lunch break. Keep an eye out for wide receiver Kenny Britt; he will be a huge piece of the offense this year and open some eyes.

SHAUN MAROSY
Piscataway, N.J.