Barry Bonds: Champion Divider?

For baseball fans gathered in San Francisco the all star game is a celebration of the national sport.

But America is uncertain how to celebrate one of the stars playing in the game — Barry Bonds, CBS News correspondent John Blackstone reports.

"A lot of the times he doesn't sign autographs," said C.W. Nevius, a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. "He's not warm and fuzzy but he does hit home runs."

Bonds is just four home runs away from Hank Aaron's all-time record but it's an accomplishment plenty of fans won't be cheering.

"I don't dislike the man, I just have a sense of history for baseball and I think that the people who used steroids corrupted the game," said Pennsylvania resident George Leshanski.

Accusations of steroid use have dogged Bonds since at least 2003, when federal agents raided BALCO, a Bay Area lab supplying athletes with sports supplements.

Mobbed at All Star events, Bonds shakes off the steroids charges and most everything else.

But just a couple of miles from the ballpark the BALCO Grand Jury is in its fourth year of deliberations and could yet decide that Bonds committed perjury when he denied taking steroids.

Bonds' links with steroids were investigated by San Francisco Chronicle reporter Lance Williams.

Despite that Bonds' defense has been "if I did take anything, I didn't know," Williams said, "he said that in front of the grand jury and they didn't believe him."

Does Williams believe Bonds?

"No, of course not," he said.

A new CBS News/New York Times polls shows that how Americans judge Bonds often depends on race.

Seventy percent of white fans say the allegations of steroid use are definitely or probably true. Only 46 percent of black fans believe the allegations.

"In this era a lot of people have done it," said Larry Lintz, a baseball fan. "Maybe he did, maybe he didn't. I can't say."

Hank Aaron, who set the career record of 755 home runs 31 years ago, has no intention of being present when Bonds surpasses him.

Still the CBS News poll shows most fans believe Bonds setting a new mark will be good for baseball.

Among whites the number is 51 percent who think it is good for the sport. Amongst blacks, a whopping 81 percent agree.

That's proof perhaps that no matter what people think of Barry Bonds…they love to see the ball go over the wall.