Barry Bonds

Barry Bonds
Left fielder
Born: July 24th, 1964 Riverside , United States
Strikes: Left	Throws: Left
Debut in Major League Baseball
May 30,  1986  with the  Pittsburgh Pirates
Last MLB assignment
September 26,  2007  with the  San Francisco Giants
MLB statistics (until end of career)
Batting average	, 298
Home runs	762
Hits	2.935
RBI	1.996
Stolen Bases	514
Teams
Pittsburgh Pirates (1986-1992) San Francisco Giants (1993-2007)
Awards
14 × All-Star (1990, 1992–1998, 2000–2004, 2007) 8 × Gold Glove Award (1990–1994, 1996–1998) 12 × Silver Slugger Award (1990–1994, 1996, 1997, 2000–2004) 7 × MVP of the NL (1990, 1992, 1993, 2001-2004) 3 × Hank Aaron Award (2001, 2002, 2004) 40-40 club 300-300 club 2001 Associated Press Athlete of the Year

Barry Lamar Bonds (born July 24, 1964 in Riverside , California ) is a retired American baseball player who was last active with the San Francisco Giants . Bonds was considered one of the best - due to his arrogance and arrogance but also one of the most unpopular - baseball players at all. He holds numerous Major League Baseball records , including 73  home runs for the most home runs in a season. After the Giants Bonds did not offer a new contract for 2008, he ended his active career.

Record holder of the all-time home run list

On August 7, 2007, Barry Bonds hit his 756th home run against the Washington Nationals and has since topped the all-time Major League home run list. In the second half of the fifth inning he carried the ball over the fence on a full count against pitcher Mike Bacsik in centerfield. The baseball, with which Barry Bonds surpassed Hank Aaron's old record from 1976, was auctioned on September 15, 2007 by fashion designer and entrepreneur Marc Ecko for $ 752,467. Ecko then set up a website where the general public could vote on what to do with the ball. The majority decided to put a star on the ball as a sign of suspected doping by bonds and thus make it available to the Baseball Hall of Fame . Bonds has spoken out vehemently against this plan.

Bonds was unable to set Sadaharu Oh's professional world record of 868 home runs.

Balco affair

In the course of the BALCO affair uncovered in 2005, it was alleged that Bonds had been doping himself with growth hormones, GHG , insulin and testosterone for years . In November 2007, a jury decided to charge the player with perjury and obstruction of justice. It is about Bonds' 2003 testimony in court that he never knowingly doped. The trial against him should have started on March 2, 2009, but was delayed due to motions by the prosecution. The trial then opened on March 21, 2011. On April 13, 2011, the jury found Bonds guilty of obstruction of justice. However, the judge declared the trial to have failed with regard to the three charges against Bonds for perjury, as the jury could not agree on a unified verdict. In December 2011, he was sentenced to two years probation, 30 days of house arrest, 250 hours of community service and a $ 4,000 fine. The federal appeals court in San Francisco acquitted Bonds in 2015 because his misleading and evasive statements in 2003 did not have a material impact on the investigation into the Balco affair.

Web links

Commons : Barry Bonds  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Player information and statistics from MLB  or  ESPN  or  Baseball Reference  or  Fangraphs  or  The Baseball Cube  or  Baseball Reference (Minor League) (English)
• Official webpage of Barry Bonds
• ESPN Player Card
• James Joyner: Barry Bonds Started Steroids after McGwire-Sosa Chase. OTB Sports, March 7, 2006
• Mark Fainaru-Wada, Lance Williams: The Truth About Barry Bonds and Steroids. ( February 24, 2012 memento on the Internet Archive ) Sports Illustrated

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.n-tv.de/sport/Beweise-gegen-Home-Run-Koenig-article25202.html
2. ^ Elias, Paul: Barry Bonds perjury trial gets under way. (No longer available online.) In: Associated Press . March 21, 2011, formerly in the original ; Retrieved March 21, 2011 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
3. ↑ Prosecutors Deciding Whether to try Bonds again. In: CNN. Associated Press, April 14, 2011; archived from the original on November 4, 2012 ; accessed on March 1, 2017 . 
4. ↑ US Department of Justice puts the 'Barry Bonds' case on file sportal.de July 21, 2015