Barry Bonds
Barry Bonds: MLB home run king and controversial legend.
He holds the MLB records for most career home runs (762) and most home runs in a single season (73, set in 2001).[1]
Quick Facts
- Position
- Left fielder
- Bats
- Left
- Born
- 24 July 1964
- Birthplace
- Riverside, California, U.S.
- Debut league
- MLB
- Debut date
- May 30
- Debut year
- 1986
- Debut team
- Pittsburgh Pirates
Facts from the source article.
Life and work
He made his Major League debut on May 30, 1986, and hit his first career home run on June 4, 1986.[2][3] He signed a then-record $43.75 million contract with the San Francisco Giants in December 1992.[4][5] In 2001, Bonds broke the single-season home run record by hitting 73 home runs.[6] Bonds was indicted in 2007 on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice related to the BALCO steroids investigation.[7]
With the sixth overall pick in the 1985 MLB draft, the Pittsburgh Pirates selected Bonds.[8]
What the cited sources add
The same article reports that Bonds's former physical education teacher Dennis Calonico watched him become the basketball team's leader in eighth grade.[9] An ESPN article from 2019 reports that Bonds received 59.1 percent of the Hall of Fame vote that year.[10] The same ESPN article notes that columnist Steve Simmons wrote that his decision on Bonds is made for him by the Hall's "integrity, sportsmanship character" clause.[10]
References
- Wikipedia, "Barry Bonds" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Barry Bonds Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More", Baseball Reference; "Year-by-Year Top-Tens Leaders & Records for On-Base Plus Slugging", Baseball Reference; "Barry Bonds » Statistics » Batting", FanGraphs; "Barry Bonds Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More", Baseball Reference, October 28, 2007; "Bonds charters 500-500 club", Deseret News, June 25, 2003; "My favorite Barry Bonds stat is still that he's the only member of the 400 homer/400 steal club and the only member of the 500 homer/500 steal club", T en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Barry Bonds" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Los Angeles Dodgers vs Pittsburgh Pirates Box Score: May 30, 1986", Baseball Reference, May 30, 1986 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Barry Bonds" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Muder, "Henry Aaron hits home run No. 715 Baseball Hall of Fame", baseballhall.org; "Hank Aaron breaks Babe Ruth's all-time home run record April 8, 1974", HISTORY, 2009-11-24; "The night Aaron passed Ruth with HR No. 715", MLB.com (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Barry Bonds" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Newhan, "Bonds Gets a Sweet Severance Check : Baseball: Free agent is owed $250,000 by the Pirates after his second most valuable player award in three years.", Los Angeles Times, November 19, 1992; Curry, "Baseball; Yankees Withdraw Rich Offer To Bonds", The New York Times, December 3, 1992; Shanks, "What if the Braves had gotten Bonds instead of Maddux?", April 7, 2020 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Barry Bonds" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Chass, Murray, "Giants Make Investment: $43 Million in Bonds", The New York Times, December 6, 1992; Chesterton, "25 years ago, Barry Bonds signed with the Giants -- and got even better", MLB.com, December 6, 2017 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Barry Bonds" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "2001 Home Run Tracker", MLB.com; Shuttlesworth, "A Giant Mark for Bonds: 70", MLB.com, October 5, 2001; Schlegel, "72: Barry breaks record, and then some", MLB.com, October 6, 2001; "2001 Home Run Tracker", MLB.com; Shuttlesworth, "Bonds hits 73rd, Giants win season finale", San Francisco Giants, October 7, 2001; "Bonds' homer ball sells for $450,000", Tampa Bay Times, June 26, 2003; Bean, "Trial scheduled to begin over historic Bonds home run ball", CNN, October 7, 2002; Syken, "Conspicuous absence", CNN, May 9, 2006; Fletcher, "Barry Bon en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Barry Bonds" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Barry Bonds convicted of obstruction of justice in performance-enhancing-drugs case", Los Angeles Times, April 13, 2011; Egelko, "Appeals court overturns Barry Bonds's obstruction conviction", SFGate, April 22, 2014; Blinn, "Baseball Hall of Fame vote: Schilling, Bonds, Clemens come up short", New York Post, January 26, 2021; Berry, "Bonds climbs, still short of Hall of Fame", MLB.com, January 24, 2018; "Complete 2022 Hall of Fame voting results", MLB.com, January 25, 2022; Passan, "Why Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens aren't getting into the en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Barry Bonds" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "1st Round of the 1985 MLB June Amateur Draft", Baseball Reference; Finoli, "The Pittsburgh Pirates Encyclopedia", Sports Publishing, 2003, p. 262; "Barry Bonds minor league statistics & history", Baseball Reference (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Almond, "Childhood Bonds", Times-Herald, June 3, 2007. facts only, no text reused. timesheraldonline.com
- Passan, "Why Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens aren't getting into the Hall of Fame", ESPN, January 23, 2019. facts only, no text reused. espn.com
Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Barry Bonds (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.
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