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Barry Bonds
“For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?” The Bible may not have been referring to anything as crass as a baseball career, but this one sentence serves to describe Barry Bonds very well. A stellar career, rich, famous, holding many records, but his own actions and words have left him a pariah in baseball, perhaps never to attain the Hall of Fame status that he craved and that his career numbers suggest he would deserve.
Barry Lamar Bonds was born on July 24, 1964, in Riverside, California, to Bobby Bonds and Patricia Howard. The teenagers had grown up next door to each other, Bobby the star athlete and Pat the beauty, and married at 17. Bobby came from a very successful sporting family; his sister, Rosie, competed in the 1964 Olympics as a hurdler, and his brother, Robert, was drafted by both the National Football League and the American Football League before their merger. A year after Bobby and Pat’s wedding, Barry was born, and two weeks after that Bobby signed a professional contract with the San Francisco Giants
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Barry Bonds
American baseball player (born 1964)
This article is about the baseball player. For other uses, see Barry Bonds (disambiguation).
Baseball player
| Barry Bonds | |
|---|---|
Bonds in 2006 | |
| Left fielder | |
| Born: (1964-07-24) July 24, 1964 (age 60) Riverside, California, U.S. | |
| May 30, 1986, for the Pittsburgh Pirates | |
| September 26, 2007, for the San Francisco Giants | |
| Batting average | .298 |
| Hits | 2,935 |
| Home runs | 762 |
| Runs batted in | 1,996 |
| Stolen bases | 514 |
| Stats at Baseball Reference | |
| As player As coach | |
MLB records
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