The Barry Bonds 74-homer watch? Out of business -- at least for this year.

The Curt Schilling 30-win watch? Officially defunct.

The Luis Castillo 56-game-hitting-streak patrol? Went home.

But just because baseball's romantic records are in no imminent danger this year doesn't mean no big records will tumble. Halfway through another baseball season, here are some of the feats under active assault:

Ted's on-base percentage
When he wasn't busy hitting .406 in 1941, Ted Williams was running up the greatest single-season on-base percentage of all time -- .553. It's six decades later, and nobody has even challenged that record seriously. Uh, not anymore.

	Barry Bonds Left Field San Francisco Giants Profile
	2002 SEASON STATISTICS AB HR RBI AVG BB OBP 210 25 50 .338 104 .566

Barry Bonds' on-base percentage through Monday was .566. So Ted ought to be squirming.

The 200-walk watch
The greatest walking machine ever assembled (i.e., Barry) was up to 104 walks by Monday, the Giants' 81st game of the year. So that puts him on a (shudder) 208-walk pace.

Just breaking that record is no big whoop to Bonds, since he already holds it (last season with 177, when he broke a Babe Ruth mark that had held up since 1923). But this time around, if Bonds keeps walking at this rate, he'd break that record it by 31 walks. Absurd.

For perspective's sake, none of these active players have walked 208 times in their whole careers: Mark Grudzielanek, Dmitri Young, Garret Anderson, Sandy Alomar Jr. (in 15 seasons) and Bonds' own teammate, Shawon Dunston (in 18 seasons).

Intent to walk
Bonds also was up to 38 intentional walks after half the season, which is five more than the American League record for a whole season (33, shared by Ted Williams and John Olerud) and only seven short of Willie McCovey's major-league record, set in 1969, before they named a cove after him. (Keep in mind that intentional walks weren't recorded when Babe Ruth played.)

At this rate, Bonds would break that record by a margin almost as large as the AL record. You've gotta be kidding. Barry already has more intentional walks this year than Nomar Garciaparra or Reggie Sanders have in their careers.

The 50-50 club
Oh, and one more Barry Bonds feat: Halfway through the season, he had 25 homers and 25 strikeouts. One one player in history -- Johnny Mize -- has ever hit 50 or more home runs and had 50 strikeouts or fewer in a season. Mize hit 51 home runs and struck out just 42 times in 1947.

The .350-.350 club
In his first season in the big leagues, Ichiro Suzuki hit .350. In his second season in the big leagues, Ichiro was hitting .363 through Monday. In the live-ball era (since 1920) only player has hit .350 or better in each of his first two seasons in the major leagues. It hasn't been done, in fact, since 1925. The only two men to do it since 1900:

Shoeless Joe Jackson 1911-12 (.408-.395)
Kiki Cuyler 1924-25 (.354-.357)

Extra, extra
At his current pace, Alfonso Soriano would finish with 102 extra-base hits and 46 stolen bases. Needless to say, that would be the most unique combination of numbers ever compiled in those two departments.

Most extra-base hits by a 40-stolen-base man: 87, by Cuyler in 1925.

Most steals by a guy who had 100 extra-base hits: 20, by Chuck Klein in 1933.

Closest to 30 and 100: Larry Walker in 1997 (33 SB, 99 XBH).

The life savers
All saves are not created equal. But no skepticism is allowed about the numbers being assembled these days by Eric Gagne and Kazuhiro Sasaki.

Gagne saved his 30th game of the year July 1, in the Dodgers' 82nd game. On the way to his record 57 saves in 1990, Bobby Thigpen didn't save his 30th until July 15, in the White Sox' 83rd game.

Gagne also has more saves (30) than baserunners (28) this year. That's been done by only one closer in history -- the great Dennis Eckersley in 1990 (48 saves, 45 baserunners).

Speaking of Eckersley, he's also being chased by Sasaki, who had given up one earned run all season until he somehow allowed two Sunday. And that two-run inning still only raised his ERA to 0.93. Which gives him a shot at the lowest ERA in history for a pitcher who worked at least 50 innings -- Eck's 0.61 in 1990.

Even if Sasaki just stays under 1.00, only two pitchers since 1900 besides Eckersley have even done that:

0.61, Dennis Eckersley 1990 (5 ER, 73 1/3 IP)
0.72, Rob Murphy 1986 (4 ER, 50 1/3 IP)
0.87, Bill Henry 1964 (5 ER, 52 IP)

The Deer hunter
Finally, on the other end of our history class, there is Greg Vaughn. His batting average, about halfway through the Devil Rays' season, was .163, in 251 at-bats. Not surprisingly, no one since 1900 has ever had enough at-bats to qualify for the batting title and an average that submerged that far below the Mendoza Line (even before there was a Mendoza Line).

Lowest average by qualifiers:

.179 Rob Deer, 1991 (448 AB)
.179 Mickey Doolan, 1918 (308 AB)
.179 Bill Bergen, 1901 (308 AB)

Lowest average by a man who got 500 at-bats: .189, by Monte Cross, in 1904.

So the heck with the Mendoza Line. Vaughn would be happy just to make it above the Deer line.

Jayson Stark is a senior writer for ESPN.com.