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Through all his incarnations, from great all-around hitter to home-run machine to suspected juicer, Barry Bonds has remained compelling theater. You can marvel at his feats or bury him with disdain, but you cannot deny the magnetic attraction to his show, because he forces it upon you.
Bonds provided a zillionth example Thursday, when instead of crawling quietly out of a slump, he busted through a wall and bounded toward his date with history.
With a ferocious wind blowing into Wrigley Field from Lake Michigan, Bonds hit not one, but...
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Will he or won’t he? Baseball commissioner Bud Selig apparently has made his decision.
SI.com reported Tuesday that Selig will be in attendance when controversial San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds breaks Hank Aaron’s all-time home run record.
However, in a Tuesday afternoon interview with New York radio station WFAN, Selig claimed that he still has not decided whether he will attend.
Bonds has 751 career homers, four shy of tying one of the most hallowed marks in American sports history.
One of the major questions...
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BOSTON - Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz told the Boston Herald on Monday that he doesn't think San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds has taken steroids during his assault on baseball's all-time home run record.
“To hit the frickin’ ball, the guy makes it look easy, but it ain’t. I don’t know how you can have that swing, consistently. I don’t know how steroids can do that,” Ortiz said. “There are supposed to be guys using steroids in the game, and there’s nobody close to Barry Bonds. What’s that mean? He was using...
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A federal appeals court has ordered Barry Bonds' personal trainer to be released from prison by 5 p.m. Thursday unless a lower court again holds him in contempt for refusing to testify before a grand jury investigating the Giants slugger for perjury.
Greg Anderson, who served a three-month prison sentence after pleading guilty to steroid distribution and money-laundering charges in the BALCO steroids case, has been imprisoned twice for refusing to testify whether Bonds used steroids.
Mark Geragos, Anderson's lawyer,...
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According to a report in the Los Angeles Times, Barry Bonds is planning to return for a 22nd major league season and expects to begin discussions with the San Francisco Giants as early as next week.
Bonds' agent, Jeff Borris, told the newspaper: "Barry's going to play in 2007. I've had many discussions with Barry and he's going to play. My intentions are to see to it he's in a big-league uniform next season. Those are my marching orders."
Bonds is just 21 homers shy of Hank Aaron's all-time mark of 755. And after struggling to start the...
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