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{{Infobox MLB player
| name = Barry Bonds
| image = 20060825 Barry Bonds follow through.jpg
| width = 300
| position = Left Fielder
| team = Free Agent
| number = 25
| bats = Left
| throws = Left
| birthdate = {{birth date and age|1964|7|24}}
| birthplace = {{city-state|Riverside|California}}
| debutdate = May 30
| debutyear = 1986
| debutteam = Pittsburgh Pirates
| statyear=2007 season
| stat1label=[[Batting average]]
| stat1value=.298
| stat2label=[[Home run]]s
| stat2value=762
| stat3label=[[Run batted in|RBI]]
| stat3value=1,996
| stat4label=[[Hit (baseball)|Hit]]s
| stat4value=2,935
| stat5label=[[Stolen base]]s
| stat5value=514
| stat6label=[[On-base percentage]]
| stat6value=.444
| awards = <nowiki></nowiki>
*[[Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player Award|Most Valuable Player]] ([[National League|NL]]): ({{by|1990}}<!--Some MLB seasons are not yet created[[1990 Major League Baseball season|1990]]-->, {{by|1992}}<!--[[1992 Major League Baseball season|1992]]-->–{{by|1993}}<!--[[1993 Major League Baseball season|1993]]-->, [[2001 Major League Baseball season|2001]]–[[2004 Major League Baseball season|2004]])
*[[Rawlings Gold Glove Award|Gold Glove]] (NL): (1990–[[1994 Major League Baseball season|1994]], [[1996 Major League Baseball season|1996]]–[[1998 Major League Baseball season|1998]])
*[[Silver Slugger Award|Silver Slugger]] (NL): (1990–[[1994 Major League Baseball season|1994]], 1996–[[1997 Major League Baseball season|1997]], [[2000 Major League Baseball season|2000]]–2004)
*[[Hank Aaron Award]] (NL): (2001–[[2002 Major League Baseball season|2002]], 2004)
*[[Major League Baseball All-Star Game|All-Star]] (NL): ([[1990 Major League Baseball All-Star Game|1990]], [[1992 Major League Baseball All-Star Game|1992]]–[[1998 Major League Baseball All-Star Game|1998]], [[2000 Major League Baseball All-Star Game|2000]]–[[2004 Major League Baseball All-Star Game|2004]], [[2007 Major League Baseball All-Star Game|2007]])
| teams = <nowiki></nowiki>
*[[Pittsburgh Pirates]] ({{by|1986}}–{{by|1992}})
*[[San Francisco Giants]] ({{by|1993}}–{{by|2007}})
}}
'''Barry Lamar Bonds''' (born [[July 24]], [[1964]] in {{city-state|Riverside|California}}) is a [[Major League Baseball]] [[outfielder]] who is currently a free agent. He is the son of former major league [[Major League Baseball All-Star Game|All-Star]] [[Bobby Bonds]], the [[Godparent|godson]] of [[National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum|Hall of Famer]] [[Willie Mays]], the nephew of [[1964 Summer Olympics|1964 Olympian]] [[Rosie Bonds]], and a distant cousin of Hall of Famer [[Reggie Jackson]].<ref name=BBEB>{{cite web|url=http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9384072/Barry-Bonds#759273.hook Britannica|accessdate=2007-09-25|title=Barry Bonds|publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.|work=Encyclopædia Britannica Online|date=2007}}</ref> He debuted in the [[Major League Baseball|Major Leagues]] with the [[Pittsburgh Pirates]] in 1986 and joined the [[San Francisco Giants]] in 1993, where he stayed through 2007. Bonds filed for [[free agency]] following the [[2007 World Series]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20071029&content_id=2287922&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb |title=A-Rod, Bonds file for free agency | author=Tom Singer | date=[[October 29]], [[2007]] | publisher=MLB}}</ref>
Bonds' accomplishments place him among the greatest baseball players of all-time.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FCI/is_9_63/ai_n6154588|title=Barry Bonds: the best ever? Giants slugger will forever be compared to the greatest major league players and his numbers will rank him as the top performer of his era|accessdate=2008-06-20|date=September 2004|publisher=CNET Networks, Inc.|work=[[Baseball Digest]]|author=Johnston, Joey}}</ref> He has a record-setting seven [[Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player Award|Most Valuable Player awards]], including a record-setting three consecutive MVPs. He is a fourteen time [[Major League Baseball All-Star Game|All-star]], eight time [[Rawlings Gold Glove Award|gold glove]]-winner and he holds numerous Major League Baseball records. He currently holds the all-time Major League Baseball [[home run]] record with 762, and is also the all-time career leader in both [[Base on balls|walks]] (2,558) and [[Intentional base on balls|intentional walks]] (688). He holds numerous other [[Baseball record holders|records]], including the single-season Major League record for home runs (73), set in {{by|2001}}.
Since 2003, Bonds has been a key figure in the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative ([[Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative|BALCO]]) scandal. He was under investigation by a federal [[grand jury]] regarding his testimony in the BALCO case, and was indicted on [[perjury]] and [[obstruction of justice]] charges on [[November 15]], [[2007]].<ref>
{{cite news
| url = http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071115/ap_on_sp_ba_ne/bbn_bonds_indicted_4
| title = Barry Bonds indicted
| publisher = Associated Press
| date = [[November 15]], [[2007]]
| accessdate = 2007-11-15
}}</ref> The indictment alleges that Bonds lied while under oath about his alleged use of [[steroids]].<ref>
{{cite news
| url= http://cdn.sfgate.com/chronicle/acrobat/2007/11/16/barrybondsindictment.pdf
| format=PDF
| title = Barry Bonds indictment
| publisher = San Francisco Chronicle
| date = [[November 15]], [[2007]]
| accessdate = 2007-11-15
}}</ref>
==Early life==
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Bonds grew up in {{city-state|San Carlos|California}} and attended [[Junípero Serra High School (San Mateo, California)|Junípero Serra High School]] in {{city-state|San Mateo|California}}, California and excelled in [[baseball]], [[basketball]] and [[American football|football]]. As a freshman, he spent the baseball season on the [[junior varsity team|JV]] team. The next three years—1980 to 1982—he starred on the [[varsity team]]. He batted for a .467 [[batting average]] his senior year, and was honored as a prep [[All-America]]n.<ref name=MLB>{{cite web|url=http://barrybonds.mlb.com/team/player_career.jsp?player_id=111188|accessdate=2007-09-08|date=2007|title=Player Profile: Barry Bonds 25|publisher=MLB Advanced Media, L.P.}}</ref> The Giants drafted Bonds in the second round of the 1982 [[Major League Baseball Draft|MLB draft]] as a high school senior,<ref name=br-stats/> but the Giants and Bonds were unable to agree on contract terms, so Bonds instead decided to attend college.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jockbio.com/Bios/Bonds/Bonds_bio.html|accessdate=2007-09-25|title=Barry Bonds: Bio|publisher=Black Book Partners, LLC.|work=jockbio.com}}</ref>
Bonds attended [[Arizona State University]], hitting .347 with 45 home runs and 175 [[runs batted in]] (RBI).<ref name=MLB/> In 1984 he batted .360 and had 30 [[stolen base]]s. In 1985 he hit 23 home runs with 66 RBIs and a .368 batting average. He was a [[Sporting News]] All-American selection that year. He tied the [[NCAA]] record with seven consecutive hits in the [[College World Series]] as sophomore and was named to All-Time College World Series Team in 1996.<ref name=MLB/> He graduated from Arizona State in 1986 with a degree in [[criminology]]. During college, he played part of one summer in the amateur [[Alaska Baseball League]] with the [[Alaska Goldpanners]].<ref name=TAGoF/>
==Major league career==
===Pittsburgh Pirates (1986–92)===
Bonds was drafted by the [[Pittsburgh Pirates]] in the first round (6th overall) of the {{by|1985}} [[Major League Baseball draft]].<ref name=br-stats/> Bonds joined the [[Potomac Nationals|Prince William Pirates]] of the [[Carolina League]] and was named July 1985 Player of the Month for the league.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://barrybonds.mlb.com/team/player_career.jsp?player_id=111188&y=1985|accessdate=2007-09-08|date=2007|title=Player Profile: Barry Bonds 25 (1985)|publisher=MLB Advanced Media, L.P.}}</ref> In {{by|1986}}, he hit .311 in 44 games for the [[Hawaii Islanders]] of the [[Pacific Coast League]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thebaseballcube.com/players/B/barry-bonds.shtml|title=Barry Bonds|accessdate=2007-09-08|publisher=thebaseballcube.com}}</ref> and he made his major league debut on [[May 30]].<ref name=mlb86>{{cite web|url=http://barrybonds.mlb.com/team/player_career.jsp?player_id=111188&y=1986|accessdate=2007-09-08|date=2007|title=Player Profile: Barry Bonds 25 (1986)|publisher=MLB Advanced Media, L.P.}}</ref>
In 1986, Bonds led [[National League]] (NL) rookies with 16 home runs, 48 RBI, 36 stolen bases and 65 walks, but he finished 6th in Rookie of the Year voting.<ref name=br-stats/><ref name=mlb86/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.baseball-reference.com/awards/awards_1986.shtml#NLroy|title=1986 National League Rookie of the Year Award |accessdate=2008-04-16|publisher=Sports Reference, LLC|work=Baseball-Reference.com}}</ref> He hit 25 home runs in his second season, along with 32 stolen bases and 59 RBIs.<ref name=br-stats/> Bonds improved in 1988, hitting .283 with 24 home runs.<ref name=br-stats/> Bonds finished with 19 homers, 58 RBIs, and 14 outfield [[Assist (baseball)|assists]], which was 2nd in NL.<ref name=br-stats/><ref name=mlb89>{{cite web|url=http://barrybonds.mlb.com/team/player_career.jsp?player_id=111188&y=1989|accessdate=2008-04-16|date=2007|title=Player Profile: Barry Bonds 25 (1989)|publisher=MLB Advanced Media, L.P.}}</ref>
Bonds won his first [[MVP]] award in 1990,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.baseball-reference.com/awards/awards_1990.shtml#NLmvp|title=1990 National League Most Valuable Player Award |accessdate=2008-04-16|publisher=Sports Reference, LLC|work=Baseball-Reference.com}}</ref> hitting .301 with 33 home runs and 114 RBIs. His 52 stolen bases were third in the league. He won his first [[Gold Glove]] and [[Silver Slugger]] Awards.<ref name=MLB/> In 1991, Bonds also put up great numbers, hitting 25 homers and driving in 116 runs, and obtained another Gold Glove and Silver Slugger. He finished second to the [[Atlanta Braves]]' [[Terry Pendleton]] (the NL batting champion) in the MVP voting.<ref name=MLB/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.baseball-reference.com/awards/awards_1991.shtml#NLmvp|title=1991 National League Most Valuable Player Award |accessdate=2008-04-16|publisher=Sports Reference, LLC|work=Baseball-Reference.com}}</ref> The next season, Bonds won his second MVP award.<ref name=MLB/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.baseball-reference.com/awards/awards_1992.shtml#NLmvp|title=1992 National League Most Valuable Player Award |accessdate=2008-04-16|publisher=Sports Reference, LLC|work=Baseball-Reference.com}}</ref> He dominated the NL, hitting .311 with 34 homers and 103 RBIs, and propelling the Pirates to their third straight [[National League East]] division title. However, Pittsburgh was defeated by the Braves in a seven-game [[1992 National League Championship Series|National League Championship Series]]. Bonds was involved in the final play of Game 7 of the NLCS, where he fielded a base hit by [[Francisco Cabrera]] and attempted to throw out [[Sid Bream]] at home plate. But the throw to Pirates catcher [[Mike LaValliere]] was late and Bream scored the winning run.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/baseballs_best/mlb_bb_gamepage.jsp?story_page=bb_92nlcs_gm7_pitatl|title=Sid Bream's modern-day "mad dash" wins the pennant for Atlanta|accessdate=2007-09-08|date=[[1992-10-14]]|publisher=MLB Advanced Media, L.P.}}</ref> For the third consecutive season, the NL East Champion Pirates were denied a trip to the World Series.
===San Francisco Giants (1993–2007)===
[[Image:Barrybonds1.JPG|right|thumb|Bonds in the field.]]
In 1993, Bonds left the Pirates to sign a lucrative [[free agent]] contract worth a then-record $43.75 million over 6 years with the Giants, with whom his father spent the first 7 years of his career, and with whom his godfather [[Willie Mays]] played 22 of his 24 Major League seasons. The deal was at that time the largest in baseball history, in terms of both total value and average annual salary.<ref name=43million>Chass, Murray. "[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CEFDD1F38F935A35751C1A964958260 Giants Make Investment: $43 Million in Bonds]", [[The New York Times]], published [[December 6]], [[1992]], accessed [[January 31]], [[2008]].</ref> To honor his father, Bonds switched his jersey number to 25 once he signed with the Giants, as it had been Bobby's number in San Francisco. (His number during most of his stay with the Pirates, 24, was retired in honor of Mays anyway).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=QIv7agRgVjEC&pg=PA143&lpg=PA143&dq=%22bobby+bonds%22+%22number+25%22+barry&source=web&ots=ZhHQPVP-52&sig=2uomExw01lPXMPJDWFwd06uE4kY&hl=en|title=Love Me, Hate Me: Barry Bonds and the Making of an Antihero|accessdate=2008-04-17|publisher=[[Google Book Search]]|author=Pearlman, Jeff}}</ref> Bonds hit .336 in 1993, leading the league with 46 home runs and 123 RBI en route to his second consecutive MVP award,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.baseball-reference.com/awards/awards_1993.shtml#NLmvp|title=1993 National League Most Valuable Player Award |accessdate=2008-04-16|publisher=Sports Reference, LLC|work=Baseball-Reference.com}}</ref> and third overall. As good as the Giants were (winning 103 games), the [[Atlanta Braves]] won 104 in what some call the last great pennant race (due to the Wild Card being instituted shortly after).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://espn.go.com/classic/s/2001/0927/1255891.html|work=ESPN Classic|title=What makes a great Pennant Race?|accessdate=2007-09-25|date=[[2001-10-01]]|publisher=ESPN Internet Ventures|author=Neyer, Rob}}</ref>
In the strike-shortened season of {{by|1994}}, Bonds hit .312 with 37 home runs and a league-leading 74 walks,<ref name=br-stats/> and he finished 4th in MVP voting.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.baseball-reference.com/awards/awards_1994.shtml#NLmvp|title=1994 National League Most Valuable Player Award |accessdate=2008-04-16|publisher=Sports Reference, LLC|work=Baseball-Reference.com}}</ref> In {{by|1995}}, Bonds hit 33 homers and drove in 104 runs, hitting .294 but finished only 12th in MVP voting.<ref name=br-stats/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.baseball-reference.com/awards/awards_1995.shtml#NLmvp|title=1995 National League Most Valuable Player Award |accessdate=2008-04-16|publisher=Sports Reference, LLC|work=Baseball-Reference.com}}</ref>
In {{by|1996}}, Bonds became the first National League player and second (of the current list of four) major league player(s) to hit 40 home runs and steal 40 bases in the same season.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://barrybonds.mlb.com/team/player_career.jsp?player_id=111188&y=1996|accessdate=2008-04-17|date=2007|title=Player Profile: Barry Bonds 25 (1996)|publisher=MLB Advanced Media, L.P.}}</ref> The other members of the [[40-40 club]] are [[José Canseco]]—1988, [[Alex Rodriguez]]—1998, and [[Alfonso Soriano]]—2006; his father Bobby Bonds was one home run short in 1973 when he hit 39 home runs and stole 43 bases.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/16/AR2006091600674.html|title=Soriano Reaches 40-40 Mark|accessdate=2008-04-17|date=[[2006-09-17]]|author=Goff, Steven|publisher=[[The Washington Post Company]]|work=[[The Washington Post]]}}</ref> Bonds drove in 129 runs with a .308 average and walked a then-National League record 151 times. During the 1996 season Bonds became the 4th player in history to steal 300 bases and hit 300 home runs for a career, joining [[Willie Mays]], [[Andre Dawson]], and [[Bobby Bonds]] in the [[300-300 club]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9802E7DC1339F934A25756C0A960958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all|title= BASEBALL;Bonds Loses Rage, but Not the Swing|accessdate=2008-04-17|date=[[1996-05-17]]|publisher=[[The New York Times Company]]|work=[[The New York Times]]|author=Smith, Claire}}</ref> but he only finished fifth in the MVP balloting.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.baseball-reference.com/awards/awards_1996.shtml#NLmvp|title=1996 National League Most Valuable Player Award |accessdate=2008-04-16|publisher=Sports Reference, LLC|work=Baseball-Reference.com}}</ref> In {{by|1997}} Bonds hit .291, his lowest average since 1989. He hit 40 home runs for the second straight year and drove in 101 runs, leading the league in walks again with 145.<ref name=br-stats/> He tied his father in 1997 for having the most 30/30 seasons, and he again placed fifth in the MVP balloting.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.baseball-reference.com/awards/awards_1997.shtml#NLmvp|title=1997 National League Most Valuable Player Award |accessdate=2008-04-16|publisher=Sports Reference, LLC|work=Baseball-Reference.com}}</ref>
In {{by|1998}}, he hit .303 with 37 home runs and drove in 122 runs, winning his eighth Gold Glove,<ref name=br-stats/> and became the first player ever to enter the [[400-400 club]] by having career totals of 400 home runs and 400 stolen bases.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sanfrancisco.giants.mlb.com/sf/history/sf_history_timeline_article.jsp?article=35|title=1996: Bonds bashes, runs into history|accessdate=2008-04-17|publisher=MLB Advanced Media, L.P.|work=Giants Timeline}}</ref> With two outs in the 9th inning of a game against the Arizona Diamondbacks on [[May 28]], [[1998 in baseball|1998]], Bonds became only the fifth player in baseball history to be given an [[intentional walk]] with the bases loaded. [[Nap Lajoie]] ([[1901 in baseball|1901]]), [[Del Bissonette]] ([[1928 in baseball|1928]]) and [[Bill Nicholson (baseball)|Bill Nicholson]] ([[1944 in baseball|1944]]) were three others in the [[20th Century]] who received that rare honor; however [[Abner Dalrymple]] was the first to receive one in [[1881 in baseball|1881]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.baseball-almanac.com/recbooks/rb_wk3.shtml|title=Intentional Bases On Balls Records|accessdate=2008-04-22|publisher=Baseball Almanac}}</ref> Bonds finished 8th in the MVP voting.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.baseball-reference.com/awards/awards_1998.shtml#NLmvp|title=1998 National League Most Valuable Player Award |accessdate=2008-04-16|publisher=Sports Reference, LLC|work=Baseball-Reference.com}}</ref>
[[Bill James]] ranked Bonds as the best player of the 1990s, adding that the decade's second-best player ([[Craig Biggio]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://statisticianmagician.mlblogs.com/archives/2008/02/james_on_biggio.html|title=James on Biggio, Me on James|accessdate=2008-04-17|date=[[2008-02-27]]}}</ref> had been closer in production to the decade's 10th-best player than to Bonds. In 1999, with statistics through 1997 being considered, Bonds ranked Number 34 on The Sporting News' list of the 100 Greatest Baseball Players, making him the highest-ranking active player.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.baseball-almanac.com/legendary/lisn100.shtml|title=Baseball's 100 Greatest Players|accessdate=2008-04-17|work=Baseball Almanac}}</ref> When the Sporting News list was redone in 2005, Bonds was ranked 6th behind Babe Ruth, Willie Mays, [[Ty Cobb]], [[Walter Johnson]], and [[Henry Aaron]]. Bonds was omitted from 1999's Major League Baseball All-Century Team, to which [[Ken Griffey, Jr.]] was elected.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.baseball-almanac.com/legendary/limc100.shtml|title=All Century Team|accessdate=2008-04-17|work=Baseball Almanac}}</ref> James wrote of Bonds, "Certainly the most unappreciated superstar of my lifetime... Griffey has always been more popular, but Bonds has been a far, far greater player." In 1999, James rated Bonds as the 16th best player of all time. "When people begin to take in all of his accomplishments", James predicted, "Bonds may well be rated among the five greatest players in the history of the game."<ref>{{cite book|title=The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract|publisher=New York: The Free Press|date=2003|author=James, Bill|isbn=0743227220}} as cited at {{cite web|url=http://www.efqreview.com/NewFiles/v21n1/books-fivebooks.html|title=Five Books for a Deserted Island|author=Christensen, Chris|accessdate=2008-04-17|date=2006|publisher=Elysian Fields Quarterly }}</ref>
[[Image:BarryLamar Bonds.jpg|thumb|left|Bonds at the plate with the Giants.]]
In 2000, the following year, Bonds hit .306 with a slugging percentage of .688 (career best at that time) and hit 49 home runs in just 143 games (also a career high to that point), while drawing a league-leading 117 walks.<ref name=br-stats/>
The next year, Bonds' offensive production reached even higher levels, breaking not only his own personal records but several major league records. In the Giants' first 50 games in 2001, Bonds hit 28 home runs, including 17 in May—a career high.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sportsline.com/mlb/bondstracker/bondslog|title=Bonds Career HR Log|accessdate=2007-09-25|publisher=CBS Interactive Inc|work=CBS Sports}}</ref> He also hit 39 home runs by the All-star break (a major league record), drew a major league record 177 walks, and had a .515 on-base average, a feat not seen since Mickey Mantle and Ted Williams over forty years earlier. Bonds' slugging percentage was a major league record .863 (411 total bases in 476 at-bats), and, most impressively, he ended the season with [[List of Barry Bonds 73 Home Runs|a major league record 73 home runs]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://barrybonds.mlb.com/team/player_career.jsp?player_id=111188&y=2001|accessdate=2008-04-17|date=2007|title=Player Profile: Barry Bonds 25 (2001)|publisher=MLB Advanced Media, L.P.}}</ref>
Bonds re-signed with the Giants for a five-year, $90 million contract in January 2002. That year, he hit 46 home runs in 403 at-bats.<ref name=br-stats/> He won the NL batting title with a career-high .370 average and struck out only 47 times. Despite playing in nine fewer games than the previous season, he drew 198 walks, a major-league record, 68 of them intentional. He slugged .799, then the fourth-highest total all time. Bonds broke Ted Williams' major league record for on-base average with .582. Bonds also hit his 600th home run, less than a year and a half after hitting his 500th.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://barrybonds.mlb.com/team/player_career.jsp?player_id=111188&y=2002|accessdate=2008-04-17|date=2007|title=Player Profile: Barry Bonds 25 (2002)|publisher=MLB Advanced Media, L.P.}}</ref>
In 2003, Bonds played in just 130 games. He hit 45 home runs in just 390 at-bats, along with a .341 batting average. He slugged .749, walked 148 times, and had an on-base average well over .500 (.529) for the third straight year.<ref name=br-stats/> He also became the only member of the career 500 home run/500 stolen base club.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/recap?gameId=230623126|title=Bonds' big night steals win for Giants|accessdate=2008-04-17|date=[[2003-06-23]]|publisher=ESPN Internet Ventures}}</ref>
In 2004, Bonds had perhaps his best season. He hit .362 en route to his second National League batting title, and broke his own record by walking 232 times. He slugged .812, which was fourth-highest of all time, and broke his on-base percentage record with a .609 average. Bonds passed Mays on the career home run list, hitting his 700th near the end of the season. Bonds hit 45 home runs in 373 at-bats, and struck out just 41 times, putting himself in elite company, as few major leaguers have ever had more home runs than strikeouts in a season. Bonds would win his fourth consecutive MVP award and his seventh overall.<ref name=br-stats/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://barrybonds.mlb.com/team/player_career.jsp?player_id=111188&y=2004|accessdate=2008-04-17|date=2007|title=Player Profile: Barry Bonds 25 (2004)|publisher=MLB Advanced Media, L.P.}}</ref> His seven MVP awards are four more than any other player in history. In addition, no other player from either league has been awarded the MVP four times in a row.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/classic/bio/news/story?page=bonds_barry011003|title=Bonds: The Unpopular Home Run Champ|accessdate=2008-04-17|date=[[2007-08-08]]|author=Carter, Bob|publisher=ESPN Internet Ventures}}</ref> (The MVP award was first given in 1931.) On [[July 4]] [[2004]] he tied and passed [[Rickey Henderson]]'s career bases on balls record with his 2190th and 2191st career walks.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/recap?gameId=240704126|accessdate=2007-07-19|date=[[2004-07-04]]|publisher=ESPN Internet Ventures|title=Bradford, Mulder both walk slugger}}</ref>.
As Bonds neared Aaron's record, Aaron was called on for his opinion of Bonds. He clarified that he was a fan and admirer of Bonds and avoided the controversy regarding whether the record should be denoted with an asterisk due Bonds' to alleged steroid usage. He felt recognition and respect for the award was something to be determined by the fans.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F04E3DB1738F934A35757C0A9629C8B63|title= Sports of The Times; Aaron Will Let the Fans Judge Bonds|accessdate=2008-05-27|date=[[2004-04-07]]|publisher=[[The New York Times Company]]|work=[[The New York Times]]|author=Anderson, Dave}}</ref> As the steroid controversy received greater media attention during the offseason before the 2005 season, Aaron expressed some reservations about the statements Bonds made on the issue. Aaron expressed that he felt drug and steroid use to boost athletic performance was inappropriate. Aaron was frustrated that the media could not focus on events that occurred in the field of play and wished drugs or gambling allegations such as those associated with Pete Rose could be emphasized less.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=1939208|title=HOF and asterisks not up to Aaron|accessdate=2008-05-27|date=[[2004-12-06]]|publisher=ESPN Internet Ventures}}</ref> In 2007, Aaron felt the whole steroid use issue was very controversial and decided that he would not attend any possible record-breaking games.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2879440|title=If Bonds breaks HR record, Aaron 'won't be there'|accessdate=2008-05-27|date=[[2007-05-22]]|publisher=ESPN Internet Ventures}}</ref> Aaron congratulated Bonds through the media when Bonds broke Aaron's record.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/2007-08-08-bonds-756_N.htm|title=Bonds blasts No. 756 to take over top spot|accessdate=2008-05-27|date=[[2007-08-07]]|publisher=[[USA TODAY]]|author=Nightengale, Bob}}</ref>
Bonds' salary for the 2005 season was $22 million, the second-highest salary in Major League Baseball (the [[New York Yankees|Yankees]]' [[Alex Rodriguez]] earned the highest, $25.2 million).<ref name=BRSalaries>{{cite web|url=http://www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/leaders_salaries.shtml|title=Highest Career Total and Single-Season Salaries|accessdate=2007-09-29|publisher=Sports Reference, Inc.|date=[[2007-09-27]]}}</ref>
Bonds endured a knee injury, multiple surgeries, and rehabilitation. He was activated on [[September 12]],[[2005]], and started in left field. In his return against the [[San Diego Padres]], he nearly hit a home run in his first at-bat. Bonds finished the night 1-for-4.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/recap?gameId=250912126|title=Giant comeback: Bonds 1-for-4 in winning return|accessdate=2008-04-17|date=[[2005-09-12]]|publisher=ESPN Internet Ventures}}</ref> Upon his return, Bonds resumed his high-caliber performance at the plate, hitting home runs in four consecutive games from [[September 18]],[[2005]] to [[September 21]],[[2005]] and finishing with five homers in only 14 games.<ref name=br-stats/>
====2006 season====
[[Image:Barry Bonds3.jpg|thumb|Bonds batting against the Chicago Cubs in 2006]]
In 2006, Bonds earned $20 million (not including bonuses), the fourth highest salary in baseball. Through the 2006 season he had earned approximately $172 million during his then 21-year career, making him baseball's all-time highest paid player.<ref name=BRSalaries/>
Bonds hit under .200 for his first 10 games of the season and did not hit a home run until [[April 22]],[[2006]]. This 10-game stretch was his longest home run slump since the 1998 season.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/recap?gameId=260422127|title=Bonds goes opposite field for career No. 709|accessdate=2008-04-17|date=[[2006-04-22]]|publisher=ESPN Internet Ventures}}</ref> On [[May 7]],[[2006]], Bonds drew within one home run of tying Babe Ruth for second place on the all time list, hitting his 713th career home run into the second level of [[Citizens Bank Park]] in [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania|Philadelphia]], off pitcher [[Jon Lieber]] in an [[ESPN]] nationally-televised game in which the Giants lost to the [[Philadelphia Phillies]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/recap?gameId=260507122|accessdate=2007-07-02|date=[[2006-05-07]]|title=Amidst Bonds spectacle, Phillies win eighth straight|publisher=ESPN Internet Ventures}}</ref> The towering home run—one of the longest in Citizens Bank Park's two-season history, traveling an estimated 450 feet (140 m)—hit off the facade of the third deck in right field.
Then, on [[May 20]],[[2006]], Bonds tied Ruth, hitting his 714th career home run to deep right field to lead off the top of the 2nd inning.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/recap?gameId=260520111|accessdate=2007-07-02|date=[[2006-05-20]]|title=Bonds reels in Babe, blasts home run No. 714|publisher=ESPN Internet Ventures}}</ref> The home run came off left-handed pitcher [[Brad Halsey]] of the [[Oakland Athletics|Oakland A's]], in an [[Interleague play|interleague]] game played in [[Oakland, California]]. Since this was an interleague game at an American League stadium, Bonds was batting as the [[designated hitter]] in the lineup for the Giants. Bonds was quoted after the game as being "glad it's over with"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://barrybonds.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20060501&content_id=1427974&vkey=news_sf&fext=.jsp&c_id=sf |title=Bonds ties Ruth with homer No. 714|date=[[2006-05-20]]||publisher=MLB Advanced MediaZ|accessdate=2007-12-14}}</ref> and stated that more attention could be focused on [[Albert Pujols]], who was on a very rapid home run pace in early 2006.
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On [[May 28]],[[2006]], Bonds passed Ruth, hitting his 715th career home run to center field off [[Colorado Rockies]] pitcher [[Byung-Hyun Kim]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/recap?gameId=260528126|accessdate=2007-07-02|date=[[2006-05-28]]|title=Bonds' milestone homer not enough vs. Rockies|publisher=ESPN Internet Ventures}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sportsline.com/mlb/gamecenter/recap/MLB_20060528_COL@SF|accessdate=2007-09-29|date=[[2006-05-28]]|title=Bonds hits No. 715, passes Ruth as Giants fall to Rockies|publisher=CBS Interactive Inc.|author=Miller, Scott}}</ref> The ball was hit an estimated 445 feet (140 m) into center field where it went through the hands of several fans but then fell onto an elevated platform in center field. Then it rolled off the platform where Andrew Morbitzer, a 38-year-old San Francisco resident, caught the ball while he was in line at a concession stand.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/05/29/MNG17J42R61.DTL|title=THE BALL:He went for peanuts, and came back with a chance for a fortune|accessdate=2008-04-17|date=[[2006-05-29]]|author=Estrella, Cicero A., and Tanya Schevitz|publisher=[[Hearst Communications Inc.]]|work=[[San Francisco Chronicle]]}}</ref> Mysteriously, radio broadcaster [[Dave Flemming]]'s radio play-by-play of the home run went silent just as the ball was hit, apparently from a microphone failure. But the televised version, called by Giants broadcaster [[Duane Kuiper]], was not affected.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2461761|accessdate=2008-04-18|date=[[2006-05-29]]|title=Giants' radio call cuts out just as Bonds hits No. 715|publisher=ESPN Internet Ventures}}</ref>
On [[September 22]],[[2006]], Bonds tied Henry Aaron's National League career home run record of 733. The home run came in the top of the 6th inning of a high-scoring game against the Milwaukee Brewers, at [[Miller Park]] in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The achievement was notable for its occurrence in the very city where Aaron began (with the Milwaukee Braves) and concluded (with the Brewers, then in the American League) his career. With the Giants trailing 10–8, Bonds hit a blast to deep center field on a 2–0 pitch off the Brewers' [[Chris Spurling]] with runners on first and second and one out. Though the Giants were at the time clinging to only a slim chance of making the playoffs, Bonds' home run provided the additional drama of giving the Giants an 11–10 lead late in a critical game in the final days of a pennant race. The Brewers eventually won the game, 13–12, despite Bonds' going 3 for 5, with 2 doubles, the record-tying home run, and 6 runs batted in.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/recap?gameId=260922108|accessdate=2007-07-02|date=[[2006-09-22]]|title=Bonds ties Aaron's NL HR mark, but Giants fall to Brewers|publisher=ESPN Internet Ventures}}</ref>
On the following day, [[September 23]],[[2006]], Bonds surpassed Aaron for the NL career home run record. Hit in Milwaukee like the previous one, this was a solo home run off [[Chris Capuano]] of the Brewers.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/recap?gameId=260923108|accessdate=2007-07-02|date=[[2006-09-23]]|title=Bonds hits NL-record 734th HR, but Giants lose again|publisher=ESPN Internet Ventures}}</ref> This was the last home run Bonds hit in 2006. In 2006, Bonds recorded his lowest [[slugging percentage]] (a statistic that he has historically ranked among league leaders season after season) since 1991 with the [[Pittsburgh Pirates]].<ref name=br-stats/>
In January 2007, the ''[[New York Daily News]]'' reported that Bonds had tested positive for [[amphetamine]]s.<ref name=NYP011107>{{cite web|url=http://www.nypost.com/seven/01112007/sports/report__bonds_used_speed_sports_.htm|accessdate=2007-09-04|title=Report: Bonds used 'speed'|date=[[2007-01-11]]|work=New York Post|publisher=NYP Holdings, Inc.}}</ref> Under baseball's amphetamine policy, which had been in effect for one season, players testing positive were to submit to six additional tests and undergo treatment and counseling.<ref name=NYP011107/> The policy also stated that players were not to be identified for a first positive test, but the ''New York Daily News'' leaked the test's results.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2727325|accessdate=2007-09-04|date=[[2007-01-11]]|title=Report: Bonds failed amphetamine test|author=|work=ESPN.com MLB news|publisher=ESPN Internet Ventures}}</ref> When the Players Association informed Bonds of the test results, he initially attributed it to a substance he had taken from the locker of Giants teammate [[Mark Sweeney]],<ref name=NYP011107/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/baseball/mlb/01/11/bonds.amphetamines/index.html|accessdate=2007-09-04|date=[[2007-01-11]]|title=Caught in the act|author=Quinn, T.J.|work=SI.com|publisher=Time Inc.}}</ref> but would later retract this claim and publicly apologize to Sweeney.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2007/02/20/SPGV7O7HBH1.DTL|accessdate=2007-09-04|date=[[2007-02-20]]|title=Sweeney: It's 'over and done': Giants don't expect another apology from Bonds|author=Schulman, Henry|work=San Francisco Chronicle|publisher=Hearst Communications Inc.}}</ref>
====2007 season====
[[Image:Barrybonds2.JPG|thumb|right|Bonds at the plate against the Rockies in 2007]]
On [[January 29]] [[2007]], the Giants finalized a contract with Bonds for the 2007 season.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sanfrancisco.giants.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070129&content_id=1789025&vkey=news_sf&fext=.jsp&c_id=sf|title=Bonds, Giants agree to deal|date=[[2007-01-29]]|accessdate=2007-09-25|publisher=MLB Advanced Media, L.P.|work=MLB.com|author=Bloom, Barry M.}}</ref> After the commissioner's office rejected Bonds's one-year, $15.8 million deal because it contained a personal-appearance provision, the team sent revised documents to his agent, Jeff Borris, who stated that "At this time, Barry is not signing the new documents."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4155/is_20070201/ai_n18626981 |title=Agent: Bonds won't sign revised contract right now|date=[[2007-02-01]]|accessdate=2007-09-25|publisher=FindArticles|work=Chicago Sun-Times}}</ref>
Bonds signed a revised one-year, $15.8 million contract on [[February 15]],[[2007]], and reported to the Giants' Spring Training camp on time.
Bonds resumed his march to the all-time record early in the 2007 season. After an opening game in which all he had was a first-inning single past third base against a right-shifted infield (immediately followed by a stolen base and then a base-running misjudgment that got him thrown out at home) and a deep out to left field late in the game,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/recap?gid=270403126|title=San Diego 7, San Francisco 0 (recap)|accessdate=2007-04-14|publisher=Yahoo! Inc./The Associated Press|date=[[2007-04-03]]|author=McCauley, Janie}}</ref> Bonds returned the next day, [[April 4]],[[2007]], with another mission. In his first at-bat of the season's second game at the Giants' AT&T Park, Bonds hit a [[Chris Young (baseball pitcher)|Chris Young]] (of the San Diego Padres) pitch just over the wall to the left of straightaway center field for career home run 735.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/recap?gid=270404126|title=San Diego 5, San Francisco 3 (recap)|accessdate=2007-04-14|publisher=Yahoo! Inc./The Associated Press|date=[[2007-04-05]]|author=McCauley, Janie}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/boxscore?gid=270404126|title=San Diego 5, San Francisco 3 (box score)|accessdate=2007-04-14|publisher=Yahoo! Inc./The Associated Press|date=[[2007-04-05]]}}</ref> This home run put Bonds past the midway point between Ruth and Aaron.
Bonds did not homer again until [[April 13]],[[2007]] when he hit two (736 and 737) in a 3 for 3 night that included 4 RBI against the Pittsburgh Pirates.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/recap?gid=270413123&prov=ap|title=San Francisco 8, Pittsburgh 5 (recap)|accessdate=2007-04-14|publisher=Yahoo! Inc./The Associated Press|date=[[2007-04-13]]}}</ref> Home runs number 739 and 740 came in back to back games on [[April 21]],[[2007]] and [[April 22]], [[2007]] against the Arizona Diamondbacks.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/recap?gid=270421126|title=San Francisco 1, Arizona 0 (recap)|accessdate=2007-04-23|publisher=Yahoo! Inc./The Associated Press|date=[[2007-04-21]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/recap?gid=270422126&prov=ap|title=San Francisco 2, Arizona 1 (recap)|accessdate=2007-04-23|publisher=Yahoo! Inc./The Associated Press|date=[[2007-04-22]]}}</ref>
The hype surrounding Bonds' pursuit of the home run record escalated on [[May 14]],[[2007]]. On this day, Sports Auction for Heritage (a Dallas-based auction house) offered US$1 million to the fan that caught Bonds' record-breaking 756th-career home run.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2869244|accessdate=2007-06-30|date=[[2007-05-14]]|title=Auction house willing to buy 756 ball for $1M|publisher=ESPN Internet Ventures}}</ref> The million dollar offer was rescinded on [[June 11]],[[2007]] out of concern of fan safety.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2900735|accessdate=2007-06-30|date=[[2007-06-12]]|title=Auction house withdraws $1M bounty on No. 756|publisher=ESPN Internet Ventures}}</ref> On that same day, Bonds launched home run 747, ending the relative drought of the previous month.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/recap?gameId=270611126|accessdate=2007-06-30|date=[[2007-06-11]]|title=Bonds' two-run shot helps Giants rally back vs. Jays|publisher=ESPN Internet Ventures}}</ref> This one came off Josh Towers of the [[Toronto Blue Jays]], and landed in [[AT&T Park]]'s right center field stands. His next home run, 748, came on Father's Day, [[June 17]],[[2007]], in the final game of a 3-game road series against the Boston Red Sox at [[Fenway Park]], where Bonds had never previously played.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/recap?gameId=270617102|accessdate=2007-06-30|date=[[2007-06-17]]|title=Bonds hits first Fenway homer in loss to Red Sox|publisher=ESPN Internet Ventures}}</ref> With this homer, Fenway Park became the 36th major league ballpark in which Bonds had hit a home run. He hit a [[Tim Wakefield]] knuckleball just over the low fence into the Giant's bullpen in right field. It was his first home run off his former Pittsburgh Pirate teammate, who became the 441st different pitcher to surrender a four-bagger to Bonds. The 750th career home run, hit on [[June 29]],[[2007]], also came off a former teammate: [[Liván Hernández]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://scores.espn.go.com/mlb/recap?gameId=270629126|accessdate=2007-06-30|date=[[2007-06-29]]|title=Bonds is 5 homers shy of Aaron's mark after loss in 10th|publisher=ESPN Internet Ventures}}</ref> The blast came in the 8th inning and at that point tied the game at 3–3.
On [[July 19]], [[2007]], after a 21 at-bat hitless streak, Bonds hit 2 home runs, numbers 752 and 753 against the [[Chicago Cubs]]. He went 3–3 with 2 home runs, 6 RBIs, and a walk on that day.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/recap?gid=270719116|title=Chi Cubs 9, San Francisco 8 (recap)|accessdate=2007-07-19|publisher=Yahoo! Inc./The Associated Press|date=[[2007-07-19]]|author=McCauley, Janie}}</ref> The struggling last place Giants still lost the game 9–8. On [[July 27]],[[2007]], Bonds hit home run 754 against [[Florida Marlins]] pitcher [[Rick VandenHurk]]. Bonds was then walked his next 4 at bats in the game, but 2-run shot helped the Giants win the game 12–10. It marked the first game Bonds had homered in that the Giants won since he had hit #747.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/recap?gameId=270727126|accessdate=2007-09-08|date=[[2007-07-27]]|title=Bonds pulls within one of Aaron's all-time mark with 754th career homer|publisher=ESPN Internet Ventures}}</ref> On [[August 4]],[[2007]], Bonds hit a <span style="white-space:nowrap">382 foot (116 m)</span> home run against [[Clay Hensley]] of the [[San Diego Padres]] for home run number 755, tying Hank Aaron's all-time record.<ref name=ESPN20070804>{{cite web|url=http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/recap?gameId=270804125|accessdate=2007-09-08|date=[[2007-08-04]]|title=Bonds ties Aaron with No. 755, but Pads win in 12|publisher=ESPN Internet Ventures}}</ref> Bonds greeted his son, Nikolai, with an extended bear hug after crossing home plate. Bonds greeted his teammates and then his wife, Liz Watson, and daughter Aisha Lynn behind the backstop. Hensley was the 445th different pitcher to give up a home run to Bonds.<ref name=ESPN20070804/> Ironically, given the cloud of suspicion that surrounded Bonds, the tying home run was hit off a pitcher who'd been suspended by baseball in 2005 for steroid use.<ref>[http://www.signonsandiego.com/sports/padres/20050405-9999-1s5padside.html SignOnSanDiego.com > San Diego Padres - Steroids violators in minors<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> He was walked in his next at bat and eventually scored on a fielder's choice.
On [[August 7]],[[2007]] at 8:51 PM [[Pacific time zone|PDT]], Bonds hit a <span style="white-space:nowrap">435 foot (133 m)</span> home run, his 756th, off a pitch from [[Mike Bacsik]] of the [[Washington Nationals]], breaking the all-time career home run record, formerly held by [[Hank Aaron]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/recap?gameId=270807126|accessdate=2007-09-08|date=[[2007-08-07]]|title=Bonds turns page to new era with home run No. 756|publisher=ESPN Internet Ventures}}</ref> Coincidentally, Bacsik's father had faced Aaron (as a pitcher for the [[Texas Rangers (baseball)|Texas Rangers]]) after Aaron had hit his 755th home run. On [[August 23]],[[1976]], Michael J. Bacsik held Aaron to a single and a fly out to right field. The younger Bacsik commented later, "If my dad had been gracious enough to let Hank Aaron hit a home run, we both would have given up 756."<ref> ''Pitcher's father faced Hank'', Associated Press August 8, 2007, ''Lexington Herald-Leader'' p B5.</ref> After hitting the home run, Bonds gave Bacsik an autographed bat.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.salem-news.com/articles/august082007/bonds_folo_080807.php|title=Bonds New King of Swing After No. 756|publisher=Salem News|accessdate=2007-09-29}}</ref>
The pitch, the seventh of the at-bat, was a 3–2 pitch which Bonds hit into the right-center field bleachers. The fan who ended up with the ball, 22-year-old Matt Murphy from [[Queens]], [[New York]], was promptly protected and escorted away from the mayhem by a group of San Francisco police officers.<ref name="ESPN.com">{{cite web|url=http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2965703|title=Queens man in San Francisco for one day catches famous ball|work=ESPN.com|accessdate=2007-09-29|date=[[2007-08-09]]|publisher=ESPN Internet Ventures}}</ref> After Bonds finished his home-run trot, a ten-minute delay followed, including a brief video by Aaron congratulating Bonds on breaking the record Aaron had held for 33 years,<ref name="too good to be true">{{cite web|author=Kriegel, Mark|url=http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/7102950|title=Bonds' historic journey too good to be true|publisher=Fox Sports Interactive Media, LLC.|accessdate=2007-09-29|date=[[2007-08-08]]}}</ref> and expressing the hope that "the achievement of this record will inspire others to chase their own dreams."<ref name="too good to be true"/> Bonds made an impromptu emotional statement on the field, with Willie Mays, his godfather, at his side and thanked his teammates, family and his late father.<ref name="too good to be true"/> Bonds sat out the rest of the game and was replaced in left field.
The commissioner, [[Bud Selig]], was not in attendance in this game but was represented by the Executive Vice President of Baseball Operations, [[Jimmie Lee Solomon]]. Selig called Bonds later that night to congratulate him on breaking the record.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/08/08/sports/base.php|accessdate=2007-10-04|author=Curry, Jack|publisher=International Herald Tribune|date=[[2007-08-08]]|title=Bonds completes rocky journey to break record}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2965584|accessdate=2007-10-04|date=[[2007-08-08]]|publisher=ESPN Internet Ventures|title=Bonds moves into eternity, assumes MLB home run record}}</ref> President [[George Walker Bush|George W. Bush]] also called Bonds the next day to congratulate him.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sanfrancisco.giants.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070808&content_id=2138216&vkey=news_sf&fext=.jsp&c_id=sf|title=Bonds receives presidential congrats|date=[[2007-08-08]]|author=Bloom, Barry B|publisher=MLB Advanced Media, L.P.|accessdate=2007-10-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2966418&campaign=rss&source=ESPNHeadlines|title=President Bush called Bonds on Tuesday to congratulate him on 756|publisher=ESPN Internet Ventures|date=[[2007-08-08]]}}</ref> On [[August 24]],[[2007]], [[San Francisco]] honored and celebrated Bonds' career accomplishments and breaking the home run record with a large rally in [[Justin Herman Plaza]]. The rally included video messages from [[Lou Brock]], [[Ernie Banks]], [[Ozzie Smith]], [[Joe Montana]], [[Wayne Gretzky]] and [[Michael Jordan]]. Speeches were made by Willie Mays, Giants teammates [[Omar Vizquel]] and [[Rich Aurilia]], and Giants owner [[Peter Magowan]]. Mayor [[Gavin Newsom]] presented Bonds the key to the [[San Francisco, California|City and County of San Francisco]] and Giants vice president Larry Baer gave Bonds the home plate he touched after hitting his 756th career home run.<ref>{{cite news|author=Wildermuth, John|title=San Francisco honors Barry Bonds for Giant accomplishments|publisher=Hearst Communications Inc.|work=The San Francisco Chronicle|date=[[2007-08-25]]|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/08/25/BAALRP1IQ.DTL|accessdate=2007-10-04}}</ref>
The record-setting ball was consigned to an auction house on [[August 21]],[[2007]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sportscollectorsdaily.com/latest/fate-of-756-ball-revealed-today.html|title=SCP/Sotheby's Will Auction Bonds' 756th Home Run Ball |accessdate=2007-10-04|date=[[2007-08-21]]|work=Sports Collectors Daily}}</ref> and sold with a winning bid of USD$752,467 on [[September 15]], [[2007]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/09/16/BAULS74ES.DTL|title=Going, going - gone! Record-breaking Bonds ball nets $752,467|publisher=Hearst Communications Inc.|work=San Francisco Chronicle|accessdate=2007-10-04|date=[[2007-09-16]]|author=Wildermuth, John}}</ref> The high bidder, [[fashion designer]] [[Marc Ecko]], created a website to let fans decide its fate.<ref>{{cite-web|url=http://www.sportscollectorsdaily.com/latest/buyer-of-756th-home-run-ball-will-let-you-decide.html|title=Buyer of 756th Home Run Ball Will Let You Decide Fate |accessdate=2007-10-04|date=[[2007-09-17]]|work=Sports Collectors Daily}}</ref>
Ben Padnos, who submitted the (US) $186,750 winning bid on Bonds' record-tying 755th home run ball also set up a website to let fans decide its fate.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ap-bonds-756ball&prov=ap&type=lgns|title=Barry Bonds' No. 756 to be branded with an asterisk and sent to Baseball Hall of Fame|publisher=Yahoo!/The Associated Press|accessdate=2007-10-04|date=2007-09-26|author=Freeman, Rick}}</ref> Of Ecko's plans, Bonds said "He spent $750,000 on the ball and that's what he's doing with it? What he's doing is stupid."<ref>
{{cite web |url=http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/09/19/SP6JS8JMH.DTL |title=Bonds' Ecko: 'stupid'|publisher=[[San Francisco Chronicle]] |author=Henry Schulman |date=2007-09-19 |accessdate=2007-09-24}}</ref>
Bonds concluded the 2007 season with a .276 batting average, 28 home runs, and 66 RBIs in 126 games and 340 at bats. At the age of 43, he led both leagues in walks with 132.<ref name=br-stats/>
===2008 season===
On [[September 21]], [[2007]], the San Francisco Giants confirmed that they would not re-sign Bonds for the 2008 season.<ref name=BwrwGf0tc/> The story was first announced on Bonds' own web site earlier that day.<ref name=WdBBgfh>{{cite web|url=http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=txbondswherenext&prov=st&type=lgns|title=Where does Barry Bonds go from here?|date=[[2007-09-21]]|accessdate=2007-09-24|publisher=Yahoo!|author=Covill, Tom}}</ref> There is much speculation about where Bonds might play in 2008 (which has passed its midpoint) and possibly beyond. Experts have suggested nearly a dozen teams as possible destinations.<ref name=Bhfcfnti0>{{cite web|url=http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=AspY18TWvLzhtF4P5Uz1KOSFCLcF?slug=bondshasfewchoicesfornew&prov=tsn&type=lgns|title=Bonds has few choices for new team in '08|author=McNeal, Stan|publisher=Yahoo! Inc.|date=[[2007-09-22]]|accessdate=2007-09-24}}</ref><ref name=WdBBgfh/> At one point, Bonds stated that he would like to sign with the [[New York Yankees]] as a [[designated hitter]], but that since the team currently has two designated hitters on the roster, it would be unlikely they would sign him.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3078090|accessdate=2007-10-25|title=Bonds likens departure from Giants to being 'fired'|publisher=ESPN Internet Ventures|date=[[2007-10-25]]}}</ref> As of early July 2008 Bonds had not yet been signed by anyone.
Most talk is of Bonds signing just for the 2008 season as he needs just 65 hits to reach the 3,000 hit mark. There is little discussion of the 800th home run or other milestones as motivation for continuing beyond 2008. In addition to the hits, Bonds needs 20 more [[runs scored]] to move past [[Ty Cobb]] for second place, and 69 to pass [[Rickey Henderson]] to be the all-time runs champion; and 38 [[extra base hit]]s to move past [[Hank Aaron]] as the all-time extra base hits champion. Bonds continues to talk of his quest for a [[World Series]] championship as motivation for returning in 2008.<ref name=BwrwGf0tc>{{cite web|url=http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3030852|title=Bonds won't return with Giants for '08, team confirms|publisher=ESPN Internet Ventures|date=[[2007-09-22]]|accessdate=2007-09-24}}</ref>
He filed for [[Free agent|free agency]] status on [[October 29]], [[2007]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20071029&content_id=2287536&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb|accessdate=2007-10-29|title=Bonds files for free agency|publisher=Major League Baseball|date=[[2007-10-29]]}}</ref>. Since he filed for free agency, Bonds has said he is ready to play and would like to be signed by a team. There has been spectulation that teams should sign him or that teams have discussed the possibility of signing him. Teams who have said to have been contemplating signing Bonds include the [[Tampa Bay Rays]] <ref>http://www.sptimes.com/2008/02/25/Rays/Rays_ponder_Bonds_pur.shtml</ref>, the [[Seattle Mariners]] <ref>http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/thiel/271362_thiel24.html</ref>, the [[Detroit Tigers]] <ref> http://www.prosportsdaily.com/mlb/tigers/rumors.html</ref>, and the [[Boston Red Sox]] <ref>http://sports.aol.com/fanhouse/2008/06/04/should-the-red-sox-sign-barry-bonds-to-replace-david-ortiz/</ref>.
==Controversies==
===BALCO Scandal===
In 2003, Bonds became embroiled in a scandal when [[Greg Anderson (trainer)|Greg Anderson]] of the [[BALCO|Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative]] (henceforth BALCO), Bonds' trainer since 2000, was indicted by a federal [[grand jury]] in the [[United States District Court for the Northern District of California]] and charged with supplying [[anabolic steroids]] to athletes, including a number of baseball players. This led to speculation that Bonds had used performance-enhancing drugs during a time when there was no mandatory testing in Major League Baseball. Bonds declared his innocence, attributing his changed physique and increased power to a strict regimen of bodybuilding, diet and legitimate supplements.<ref name=Bttsdw>{{cite web|url=http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=1937594|title=Bonds testified that substances didn't work|accessdate=2008-02-20|date=[[2004-12-04]]|publisher=ESPN Internet Ventures}}</ref>
During grand jury testimony on [[December 4]], [[2003]]—which was later found to be obtained through an illegal leak by Troy Ellerman,<ref name=BlEg2yip/> a defense lawyer for [[Victor Conte]], to the ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]'' (leaking grand jury testimony is a felony, to which Ellerman pled guilty to on [[February 14]],[[2007]]) and published almost a year later, on [[December 3]], [[2004]]—
Bonds said that he used a clear substance and a cream that he received from his personal strength trainer, Greg Anderson, who told him they were the nutritional supplement flaxseed oil and a rubbing balm for arthritis.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/12/03/MNGGFA0UDU65.DTL|title=What Bonds told BALCO grand jury|date=[[2004-12-03]]|accessdate=2007-10-10|publisher=Hearst Communications Inc.|work=San Francisco Chronicle|author=Williams, Lance, Mark Fainaru-Wada}}</ref> This testimony, as reported by [[Lance Williams]] and [[Mark Fainaru-Wada]], has frequently been misrepresented. Later reports on Bonds's leaked grand-jury testimony contend that he admitted to unknowingly using "[[the cream]]" and "[[Tetrahydrogestrinone|the clear]]".<ref name=Bttsdw/>
In July 2005, all four defendants in the BALCO steroid scandal trial, including Anderson, struck deals with federal prosecutors that did not require them to reveal names of athletes who may have used banned drugs.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/07/16/MNG7PDP6HA1.DTL | title=40 of 42 BALCO charges dropped - Steroid lab owner, Bonds' trainer guilty in plea deal | publisher=[[Hearst Communications Inc.]]|work=[[San Francisco Chronicle]] | date=[[2005-07-16]] | accessdate=2008-02-20 |author=Fainaru-Wada, Mark and Lance Williams}}</ref>
===Players' Union===
Bonds withdrew from the [[Major League Baseball Players Association|MLB Players Association]]'s (MLBPA) [[License|licensing]] agreement because he felt independent marketing deals would be more lucrative for him. Bonds is the first player in the thirty-year history of the licensing program not to sign.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=1661883|title=Bonds will be individually licensed|accessdate=2008-02-20|publisher=ESPN Internet Ventures|date=[[2003-11-17]]|author=Rovell, Darren}}</ref> Because of this withdrawal, his name and likeness are not usable in any merchandise licensed by the MLBPA. In order to use his name or likeness, a company must deal directly with Bonds. For this reason he does not appear in some baseball [[video games]], forcing game-makers to create generic athletes to replace him. For example, Bonds is replaced by "[[Jon Dowd]]" in ''[[MVP Baseball 2005]]'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thewiire.com/review/135/1/The_BIGS|title=The BIGS|accessdate=2008-02-20|publisher=The Wiire|author=Wright, Eric|date=[[2007-07-24]]}}</ref> <!-- Unable to find refs "Wes Mailman" in ''[[All-Star Baseball 2005]]'', "Joe Young" in [[MLB 2K7]], Backyard Baseball 2007 and "Dean Gibeau" in ''All-Star Baseball 2006 ''and "Reggie Stocker" in ''[[MLB 07: The Show]]''. Also, [[Strat-o-Matic]] baseball publishes a card with no name, but abilities based on Bonds' statistics.-->
===''Game of Shadows''===
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[[Image:Barry Bonds SI Cover.jpg|thumb|Barry Bonds on the [[March 13]] [[2006]] cover of Sports Illustrated heralding the release of ''[[Game of Shadows]]'']]
In March, 2006 the book ''[[Game of Shadows]]'', written by [[Lance Williams and Mark Fainaru-Wada]], was released amid a storm of media publicity including the cover of ''[[Sports Illustrated]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://dynamic.si.cnn.com/si_online/covers/issues/2006/0313.html|title=SI Cover Search|accessdate=2008-02-20|publisher=[[Time Inc.]]|work=[[SI.com]]}}</ref> Initially small excerpts of the book were released by the authors in the issue of ''Sports Illustrated''. The book alleges Bonds used [[stanozolol]] and a host of other steroids, and is perhaps most responsible for the change in public opinion regarding Bonds' steroid use.<ref name=TTABBaS>{{cite web|url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/magazine/03/06/growth0313/|title=The Truth About Barry Bonds and Steroids|publisher=[[Time Inc.]]|work=[[SI.com]]|accessdate=2008-02-20|author=Fainaru-Wada, Mark and Lance Williams}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/23/books/23kaku.html?_r=1&oref=slogin|title=Barry Bonds and Baseball's Steroids Scandal|accessdate=2008-02-20|publisher=[[The New York Times Company]]|work=[[New York Times]]|date=[[2006-03-23]]|author=Kakutani, Michiko}}</ref>
The book contained excerpts of grand jury testimony that is supposed to be sealed and confidential by law. The authors have been steadfast in their refusal to divulge their sources,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?id=2435256|title='Game of Shadows' authors are subpoenaed|accessdate=2008-02-20|date=[[2006-05-06]]|publisher=ESPN Internet Ventures}}</ref> and at one point faced jail time. On [[February 14]], [[2007]], Troy Ellerman, one of [[Victor Conte]]'s lawyers, pled guilty to leaking grand jury testimony. Through the plea agreement, he will spend two and a half years in jail.<ref name=BlEg2yip>{{cite web|url=http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2934650|title=BALCO leaker Ellerman gets 2½ years in prison|accessdate=2008-02-20|date=[[2007-07-12]]|publisher=ESPN Internet Ventures}}</ref>
===''Love Me, Hate Me''===
In May 2006, former ''[[Sports Illustrated]]'' writer [[Jeff Pearlman]] released a scathing biography of Bonds entitled ''Love Me, Hate Me: Barry Bonds and the Making of an Anti-Hero.'' The book also contained many allegations against Bonds.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06099/680058-148.stm|title='Love Me, Hate Me: Barry Bonds and the Making of an Antihero' by Jeff Pearlman|accessdate=2008-02-20|publisher=PG Publishing Co., Inc.|work=[[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]]|date=[[2006-04-09]]|author=Caroulis, Jon}}</ref> The book, which describes Bonds as a polarizing insufferable braggart with a legendary ego and staggering ability, relied on over five hundred interviews.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.harpercollins.com/books/9780061191923/Love_Me_Hate_Me/index.aspx|title=Love Me, Hate Me|accessdate=2008-02-20|publisher=HarperCollins Publishers}}</ref>
===Perjury investigation and Federal indictment===
{{main|Legal problems of Barry Bonds}}
On [[November 15]], [[2007]], Bonds was indicted for both four counts of [[perjury]] and one count of [[obstruction of justice]] as it relates to the government investigation of BALCO.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7097583.stm|title=Baseball star Barry Bonds charged|work=BBC News|date=2007-11-16|accessdate=2008-02-15}}</ref>
On [[February 14]], [[2008]] a [[typo]] in court papers filed by Federal prosecutors erroneously alleged that Bonds tested positive for steroids in [[November]], [[2001]], a month after hitting his record 73rd home run. The reference was meant instead to refer to a November [[2000]] test that had already been disclosed and previously reported.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3246675&campaign=rss&source=ESPNHeadlines|title=U.S. filing typo spurs erroneous Bonds drug report|author = |work=ESPN.com news services|date=2008-02-15|accessdate=2008-02-15}}</ref> The typo sparked a brief media frenzy.<ref>{{cite news|http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory?id=4294590|title=Typo Spurs Erroneous Bonds Drug Reports|author=Paul Elias |work=ABC News|date=2008-02-15|accessdate=2008-02-15}}</ref>
==''Bonds on Bonds''==
{{main|Bonds on Bonds}}
In April 2006 and May 2006, [[ESPN]] aired a few episodes of a 10-part [[reality TV]] (unscripted, [[documentary film|documentary]]-style) series starring Bonds.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/04/05/SPG6UI3O1N1.DTL|title='Bonds on Bonds' -- You'll love him or hate him: At turns sickening, redeeming, it might be essential viewing|accessdate=2008-04-17|date=[[2006-04-05]]|author=Goodman, Tim|publisher=[[Hearst Communications Inc.]]|work=[[San Francisco Chronicle]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20060301&content_id=1329739&vkey=spt2006news&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb|title=Bonds to star in documentary series|accessdate=2008-04-17|date=[[2006-03-01]]|author=Bloom, Barry M.|publisher=MLB Advanced Media, L.P.}}</ref> The show, titled ''[[Shows on ESPN#Original Series|Bonds on Bonds]]'', focused on Bonds' chase of [[Babe Ruth]]'s and [[Hank Aaron]]'s [[home run]] records. Some felt the show should be put on hiatus until baseball investigated Bonds' steroid use allegations.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/columns/story?columnist=solomon_george&id=2368884|title=ESPN should put 'Bonds on Bonds' on holdESPN should put 'Bonds on Bonds' on hold|accessdate=2008-04-17|date=[[2006-03-14]]|publisher=ESPN Internet Ventures|author=Solomon, George}}</ref> The series was canceled in June 2006, ESPN and producer Tollin/Robbins Productions citing "creative control" issues with Bonds and his representatives.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/category?blogid=24&cat=578|title=Bonds Goes Boneyard|accessdate=2008-04-17|date=[[2006-06-02]]|author=Goodman, Tim|publisher=[[Hearst Communications Inc.]]|work=[[San Francisco Chronicle]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/news/cabletv/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002575683|title=ESPN's Bonds On Bonds Pulled|accessdate=2008-04-17|date=[[2006-05-25]]|publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc.|author=Consoli, John}}</ref>
==Personal life==
Bonds met Susann ("Sun") Margreth Branco, the mother of his first two children, in {{city-state|Montreal|Quebec}} in August 1987. They eloped in {{city-state|Las Vegas|Nevada}} [[February 5]][[1988]]. They had two children (Nikolai and Shikari)<ref name=GAsdpa>{{cite news|url=http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/e/a/1995/03/28/NEWS6252.dtl&hw=barry+bonds&sn=098&sc=251|title=Giants star defends prenuptial agreement|accessdate=2007-10-10|date=[[1995-03-28]]|author=Brazil, Eric|publisher=Hearst Communications Inc.|work=sfgate.com}}</ref> and separated in June 1994, divorced in December 1994 and had their marriage [[annulment|annulled]] in 1997 by the [[Catholic Church]].<ref name=BaLBMP>{{cite web|url=http://marriage.about.com/od/sports/p/barrybonds.htm|title=Barry and Liz Bonds Marriage Profile|accessdate=2008-04-16|publisher=About Inc.|author=Stritoff, Sheri and bob}}</ref> The divorce was a media affair because Bonds had his Swedish spouse sign a [[prenuptial agreement]] in which she "waived her right to a share of his present and future earnings" and which was upheld. Bonds had been providing his wife $20,000/month in child support and $10,000 in spousal support at the time of the ruling.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/e/a/1995/05/16/NEWS4238.dtl&hw=Barry+Bonds&sn=010&sc=783|title=Sun Bonds is loser in ruling on prenuptial agreement Giants star didn't trick her into signing, judge says|accessdate=2008-04-16|date=[[1995-05-16]]|publisher=[[Hearst Communications Inc.]]|work=[[San Francisco Chronicle]]|author=Brazil, Eric}}</ref> During the hearings to set permanent support levels, allegations of abuse came from both parties.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/e/a/1995/12/07/NEWS7115.dtl&hw=Barry+Bonds&sn=006&sc=889|title=Ex-wife says Bonds beat her repeatedly during marriage: Tearful defendant testifies he kicked her while pregnant|accessdate=2008-04-16|date=[[1995-12-07]]|publisher=[[Hearst Communications Inc.]]|work=[[San Francisco Chronicle]]|author=Mitchell, Eve}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/e/a/1995/12/09/NEWS5801.dtl&hw=Barry+Bonds&sn=005&sc=899|title=Lawyer challenges Sun Bonds' account of beating: Testimony centers on '93 altercation|accessdate=2008-04-16|date=[[1995-12-09]]|publisher=[[Hearst Communications Inc.]]|work=[[San Francisco Chronicle]]|author=Mitchell, Eve}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/e/a/1995/12/16/NEWS14045.dtl&hw=Barry+Bonds&sn=004&sc=956|title=Bonds counters ex-wife's charges: Giants star testifies in divorce case that she kicked him and broke his trophies|accessdate=2008-04-16|date=[[1995-12-16]]|publisher=[[Hearst Communications Inc.]]|work=[[San Francisco Chronicle]]|author=Mitchell, Eve}}</ref> The trial dragged on for months, but Bonds was awarded both houses and reduced support.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/e/a/1996/03/08/NEWS9942.dtl&hw=Barry+Bonds&sn=001&sc=1000|title=Sun Bonds' claims dismissed; houses go to ballplayer: JUDGE SIDES WITH GIANTS STAR|accessdate=2008-04-16|date=[[1996-03-08]]|publisher=[[Hearst Communications Inc.]]|work=[[San Francisco Chronicle]]|author=Mitchell, Eve}}</ref> Nikolai was a [[batboy]] for the Giants and always sat next to his dad in the dugout during games.<ref name=batboyson>{{cite news|url=http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2918168|title=Bonds' son might not be working as bat boy when dad breaks HR mark|accessdate=2007-10-10|date=[[2007-07-27]]|publisher=ESPN Internet Ventures|work=ESPN.com}}</ref>
Bonds remarried on [[January 10]][[1998]] in the San Francisco [[Ritz-Carlton]] Hotel in front of 240 guests.<ref name=BaLBMP/> Bonds lives in the [[Los Altos Hills]] area of San Francisco with his second wife, Liz Watson, and their daughter Aisha.<ref name=BaLBMP/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.losaltoshills.com/people/|title=Los Altos Hills People|accessdate=2008-04-17|publisher=Los Altos Hills.com}}</ref> He also owns a home in the exclusive gated community of [[Beverly Park]] in [[Beverly Hills]], CA.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/02/fashion/02mansion.html|title=Paradise Bought in Los Angeles|accessdate=2008-04-17|date=[[2006-07-02]]|author=Waxman, Sharon|publisher=[[The New York Times Company]]|work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref>
Bonds also had an extensive intimate relationship with Kimberly Bell from 1994 through May, 2003.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,147456,00.html|title=Barry Bonds' Alleged Mistress Speaks Out|accessdate=2008-04-17|date=[[2005-08-08]]|publisher=FOX News Network, LLC}}</ref> Bonds purchased a home in {{city-state|Scottsdale|Arizona}} for Kimberly.<ref name=BaLBMP/>
Bonds has an older brother, Bobby, Jr. who was a professional baseball player.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sports.aol.com/fanhouse/2007/05/17/barry-bonds-brother-sticks-up-for-him-bashes-aaron/|title=Barry Bonds' Brother Sticks Up for Him, Bashes Aaron|accessdate=2008-04-17|date=[[2007-05-17]]|publisher=AOL LLC|author=Brown, Larry}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Bobby_Bonds_Jr.|title=Bobby Bonds Jr.|accessdate=2008-04-17|publisher=baseball-reference.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/07/01/SP195291.DTL|title=Bobby Bonds Jr. plays for the love of the game|accessdate=2008-04-17|date=[[2001-07-01]]|author=Knapp, Gwen|publisher=[[Hearst Communications Inc.]]|work=[[San Francisco Chronicle]]}}</ref> His paternal aunt, Rosie Bonds, is a former American record holder in the 80 meter [[hurdles]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thebaseballpage.com/players/bondsba01.php|title=Barry Bonds|accessdate=2008-04-17|publisher=The Baseball Page.com}}</ref> and she competed in the 1964 Olympics.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wireimage.com/ItemListings.aspx?igi=72635&nbc1=1&VwMd=i|title=1964 U.S. Olympic Track & Field Olympian Rosie Bonds|accessdate=2008-04-17|date=[[2004-08-16]]|publisher=WireImage}}</ref> He is a distant cousin of Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson.<ref name=BBEB/>
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! [[Double (baseball)|2B]]
! [[Triple (baseball)|3B]]
! [[Home run|HR]]
! [[Runs batted in|RBI]]
! [[Stolen base|SB]]
! [[Caught stealing|CS]]
! [[Base on balls|BB]]
! [[Strikeout|SO]]
! [[Batting average|BA]]
! [[On base percentage|OBP]]
! [[Slugging percentage|SLG]]
! [[Total bases|TB]]
! [[Sacrifice hit|SH]]
! [[Sacrifice fly|SF]]
! [[Intentional base on balls|IBB]]
! [[Hit by pitch|HBP]]
! [[Grounded into double play|GDP]]
|-style="text-align: center;"
| 1986
| 21
| [[Pittsburgh Pirates|PIT]]
| [[National League|NL]]
| 150
| 413
| 72
| 92
| 26
| 3
| 16
| 48
| 36
| 7
| 65
| 102
| .223
| .330
| .416
| 172
| 2
| 2
| 2
| 2
| 4
|-style="text-align: center;"
| 1987
| 22
| PIT
| NL
| 150
| 551
| 99
| 144
| 34
| 9
| 25
| 59
| 32
| 10
| 54
| 88
| .261
| .329
| .492
| 271
| 0
| 3
| 3
| 3
| 4
|-style="text-align: center;"
| 1988
| 23
| PIT
| NL
| 144
| 538
| 97
| 152
| 30
| 5
| 24
| 58
| 17
| 11
| 72
| 82
| .283
| .368
| .491
| 264
| 0
| 2
| 14
| 2
| 3
|-style="text-align: center;"
| 1989
| 24
| PIT
| NL
| 159
| 580
| 96
| 144
| 34
| 6
| 19
| 58
| 32
| 10
| 93
| 93
| .248
| .351
| .426
| 247
| 1
| 4
| 22
| 1
| 9
|-style="text-align: center;"
| 1990
| 25
| PIT
| NL
| 151
| 519
| 104
| 156
| 32
| 3
| 33
| 114
| 52
| 13
| 93
| 83
| .301
| .406
| .565<font color="blue">~</font>
| 293
| 0
| 6
| 15
| 3
| 8
|-style="text-align: center;"
| 1991
| 26
| PIT
| NL
| 153
| 510
| 95
| 149
| 28
| 5
| 25
| 116
| 43
| 13
| 107
| 73
| .292
| .410<font color="brown">^</font>
| .514
| 262
| 0
| 13
| 25
| 4
| 8
|-style="text-align: center;"
| 1992
| 27
| PIT
| NL
| 140
| 473
| 109<font color="brown">^</font>
| 147
| 36
| 5
| 34
| 103
| 39
| 8
| 127<font color="blue">~</font>
| 69
| .311
| .456<font color="blue">~</font>
| .624<font color="blue">~</font>
| 295
| 0
| 7
| 32<font color="blue">~</font>
| 5
| 9
|-style="text-align: center;"
| 1993
| 28
| [[San Francisco Giants|SF]]
| NL
| 159
| 539
| 129
| 181
| 38
| 4
| 46<font color="blue">~</font>
| 123<font color="brown">^</font>
| 29
| 12
| 126
| 79
| .336
| .458<font color="brown">^</font>
| .677<font color="blue">~</font>
| 365<font color="blue">~</font>
| 0
| 7
| 43<font color="blue">~</font>
| 2
| 11
|-style="text-align: center;"
| 1994
| 29
| SF
| NL
| 112
| 391
| 89
| 122
| 18
| 1
| 37
| 81
| 29
| 9
| 74<font color="brown">^</font>
| 43
| .312
| .426
| .647
| 253
| 0
| 3
| 18<font color="brown">^</font>
| 6
| 3
|-style="text-align: center;"
| 1995
| 30
| SF
| NL
| 144<font color="brown">^</font>
| 506
| 109
| 149
| 30
| 7
| 33
| 104
| 31
| 10
| 120<font color="brown">^</font>
| 83
| .294
| .431<font color="brown">^</font>
| .577
| 292
| 0
| 4
| 22<font color="brown">^</font>
| 5
| 12
|-style="text-align: center;"
| 1996
| 31
| SF
| NL
| 158
| 517
| 122
| 159
| 27
| 3
| 42
| 129
| 40
| 7
| 151<font color="blue">~</font>
| 76
| .308
| .461
| .615
| 318
| 0
| 6
| 30<font color="blue">~</font>
| 1
| 11
|-style="text-align: center;"
| 1997
| 32
| SF
| NL
| 159
| 532
| 123
| 155
| 26
| 5
| 40
| 101
| 37
| 8
| 145<font color="blue">~</font>
| 87
| .291
| .446
| .585
| 311
| 0
| 5
| 34<font color="blue">~</font>
| 8
| 13
|-style="text-align: center;"
| 1998
| 33
| SF
| NL
| 156
| 552
| 120
| 167
| 44
| 7
| 37
| 122
| 28
| 12
| 130
| 92
| .303
| .438
| .609
| 336
| 1
| 6
| 29<font color="blue">~</font>
| 8
| 15
|-style="text-align: center;"
| 1999
| 34
| SF
| NL
| 102
| 355
| 91
| 93
| 20
| 2
| 34
| 83
| 15
| 2
| 73
| 62
| .262
| .389
| .617
| 219
| 0
| 3
| 9
| 3
| 6
|-style="text-align: center;"
| 2000
| 35
| SF
| NL
| 143
| 480
| 129
| 147
| 28
| 4
| 49
| 106
| 11
| 3
| 117<font color="brown">^</font>
| 77
| .306
| .440
| .688
| 330
| 0
| 7
| 22
| 3
| 6
|-style="text-align: center;"
| 2001
| 36
| SF
| NL
| 153
| 476
| 129
| 156
| 32
| 2
| '''73'''
| 137
| 13
| 3
| 177<font color="green">+</font>
| 93
| .328
| .515<font color="blue">~</font>
| '''.863'''
| 411
| 0
| 2
| 35
| 9
| 5
|-style="text-align: center;"
| 2002
| 37
| SF
| NL
| 143
| 403
| 117
| 149
| 31
| 2
| 46
| 110
| 9
| 2
| 198<font color="green">+</font>
| 47
| .370<font color="blue">~</font>
| .582<font color="green">+</font>
| .799<font color="blue">~</font>
| 322
| 0
| 2
| 68<font color="green">+</font>
| 9
| 4
|-style="text-align: center;"
| 2003
| 38
| SF
| NL
| 130
| 390
| 111
| 133
| 22
| 1
| 45
| 90
| 7
| 0
| 148<font color="blue">~</font>
| 58
| .341
| .529<font color="blue">~</font>
| .749<font color="blue">~</font>
| 292
| 0
| 2
| 61<font color="blue">~</font>
| 10
| 7
|-style="text-align: center;"
| 2004
| 39
| SF
| NL
| 147
| 373
| 129
| 135
| 27
| 3
| 45
| 101
| 6
| 1
| '''232'''
| 41
| .362<font color="brown">^</font>
| '''.609'''
| .812<font color="blue">~</font>
| 303
| 0
| 3
| '''120'''
| 9
| 5
|-style="text-align: center;"
| 2005
| 40
| SF
| NL
| 14
| 42
| 8
| 12
| 1
| 0
| 5
| 10
| 0
| 0
| 9
| 6
| .286
| .404
| .667
| 28
| 0
| 1
| 3
| 0
| 0
|-style="text-align: center;"
| 2006
| 41
| SF
| NL
| 130
| 367
| 74
| 99
| 23
| 0
| 26
| 77
| 3
| 0
| 115<font color="brown">^</font>
| 51
| .270
| .454<font color="brown">^</font>
| .545
| 200
| 0
| 1
| 38<font color="blue">~</font>
| 10
| 9
|-style="text-align: center;"
| 2007
| 42
| SF
| NL
| 126
| 340
| 75
| 94
| 14
| 0
| 28
| 66
| 5
| 0
| 132<font color="blue">~</font>
| 54
| .276
| .480<font color="blue">~</font>
| .565
| 192
| 0
| 2
| 43<font color="blue">~</font>
| 3
| 13
|-style="text-align: center;"
|colspan=4|Totals:
| 2,986
| 9,847
| 2,227
| 2,935
| 601
| 77
|'''762'''
| 1,996
| 514
| 141
| '''2,558'''
| 1,539
| .298
| .444
| .607
| 5,976
| 4
| 91
| '''688'''
| 106
| 165
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*<font color="brown">^</font> = Led [[National League|NL]]
*<font color="blue">~</font> = Led [[Major League Baseball|MLB]]
*<font color="green">+</font> = Former MLB Record
*'''Bold''' = MLB Record
*[[Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player]]: 1990, 1992, 1993, 2001–2004
*[[Major League Baseball All-Star Game|All-Star Team]], [[National League|NL]]:1990, 1992–1998, 2000–2004, 2007
*Through [[September 26]], [[2007 Major League Baseball season|2007]]<ref name=br-stats/>
===Watchlists===
{|
|valign="top"|
;Home Runs
# '''Barry Bonds 762'''
# [[Hank Aaron]] 755
# [[Babe Ruth]] 714
# [[Willie Mays]] 660
# [[Sammy Sosa]] 609
;RBI
# [[Hank Aaron]] 2,297
# [[Babe Ruth]] 2,217
# [[Cap Anson]] 2,076
# '''Barry Bonds 1,996'''
# [[Lou Gehrig]] 1,995
;Runs
# [[Rickey Henderson]] 2,295
# [[Ty Cobb]] 2,246
# '''Barry Bonds 2,227'''
# [[Hank Aaron]] 2,174
# [[Babe Ruth]] 2,174
;Extra Base Hits
# [[Hank Aaron]] 1,477
# '''Barry Bonds 1,440'''
# [[Stan Musial]] 1,377
# [[Babe Ruth]] 1,356
# [[Willie Mays]] 1,323
|valign="top"|
;Total Bases
# [[Hank Aaron]] 6,856
# [[Stan Musial]] 6,134
# [[Willie Mays]] 6,066
# '''Barry Bonds 5,976'''
# [[Ty Cobb]] 5,854
;Times on Base
# [[Pete Rose]] 5,929
# '''Barry Bonds 5,599'''
# [[Ty Cobb]] 5,532
# [[Rickey Henderson]] 5,343
# [[Carl Yastrzemski]] 5,304
;Walks
# '''Barry Bonds 2,558'''
# [[Rickey Henderson]] 2,190
# [[Babe Ruth]] 2,062
# [[Ted Williams]] 2,021
# [[Joe Morgan]] 1,865
;Intentional Walks
# '''Barry Bonds 688'''
# [[Hank Aaron]] 293
# [[Willie McCovey]] 260
# [[Ken Griffey, Jr.]] 230 (active)
# [[George Brett (baseball)|George Brett]] 229
|valign="top"|
;The Road to 3,000 Hits
:27. [[Roberto Clemente]] 3,000 R
:28. [[Sam Rice]] 2,987 L
:29. [[Sam Crawford]] 2,961 L
:30. [[Frank Robinson]] 2,943 R
:31. '''Barry Bonds 2,935 L'''
|}
*Through [[2007 Major League Baseball season]]<ref name=br-stats>{{cite web |url=http://www.baseball-reference.com/b/bondsba01.shtml |title=Barry Bonds Statistics| work=Baseball-Reference|publisher=Sports Reference, Inc.|accessdate=2007-11-03|date=[[2007-10-28]]}}</ref>
==Career distinctions==
Besides holding Major League career records in home runs (762), walks (2,558), and intentional walks (688), Bonds also leads all active players in RBI (1,996), on-base percentage (.444), runs (2,227), games (2,986), extra-base hits (1,440), at-bats per home run (12.92), and total bases (5,976). He is 2nd in doubles (601), slugging percentage (.607), stolen bases (514), at-bats (9,847), and hits (2,935), 6th in triples (77), 8th in sacrifice flies (91), and 9th in [[strikeout]]s (1,539), through [[September 26]], [[2007]].<ref name=br-stats/>
Bonds is the lone member of the 500–500 club, which means he has hit at least 500 home runs (762) and stolen 500 bases (514). He is also one of only four baseball players all-time to be in the 40–40 club (1996), which means he hit 40 home runs (42) and stole 40 bases (40) in the same season.
====Records held====
* [[Progression of the single-season MLB home run record|Home runs in a single season]] (73), 2001
* Home runs in a single post-season (8), 2002
* Home runs against different pitchers (449)
* Home runs since turning 40 years old (74)
* Home runs in the year he turned 43 years old (28)
* Consecutive seasons with 30 or more home runs (13), 1992-2004
* Slugging percentage in a single season (.863), 2001
* Slugging percentage in a World Series (1.294), 2002
* Consecutive seasons with .600 slugging percentage or higher (8), 1998-2005
* On-base percentage in a single season (.609), 2004
* Walks in a single season (232), 2004
* Intentional walks in a single season (120), 2004
* Consecutive games with a walk (18)
* [[Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player Award|MVP]] awards (7—closest competitors trail with 3), 1990, 1992-93, 2001-04
* Consecutive MVP awards (4), 2001-04
* National League [[Player of the Month]] selections (13—the next highest in either league is 8 by [[Frank Thomas (AL baseball player)|Frank Thomas]], and the next highest in the N.L. is 6 by [[George Foster (baseball player)|George Foster]], [[Pete Rose]] and [[Dale Murphy]])
* Oldest player (age 38) to win the National League [[batting average|batting title]] (.370) for the first time, 2002
*Tied National League high with 4 home runs in the 2002 World Series, one short of major league record of 5, by Reggie Jackson of the 1977 Yankees.
====Records shared====
* Consecutive plate appearances with a walk (7)
* Consecutive plate appearances reaching base (15)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://barrybonds.mlb.com/team/player_career.jsp?player_id=111188&y=1998|accessdate=2008-04-17|date=2007|title=Player Profile: Barry Bonds 25 (1998)|publisher=MLB Advanced Media, L.P.}}</ref>
* Tied with his father, Bobby, for most seasons with 30 home runs and 30 stolen bases (five) and are the only father-son members of the 30-30 club
* Home runs in a single post-season (8), 2002
====Other accomplishments====
* 5-time SF Giants Player of the Year (1998, 2001–04)
* 7-time [[Baseball America]] NL All-Star (1993, 1998, 2000–04)
* 3-Time Major League Player of the Year (1990, 2001, 2004)
* 3-Time Baseball America MLB Player of the Year (2001, 2003–04)
* 8-Time Gold Glove winner for NL Outfielder (1990–94, 1996–98)
* 12-Time Silver Slugger winner for NL Outfielder (1990–94, 1996–97, 2000–04)
* 14-time [[Major League Baseball All-Star Game|All-Star]] (1990, 1992–98, 2000–04, 2007)
* 3-Time NL Hank Aaron Award winner (2001–02, 2004)
* Listed at #6 on ''[[The Sporting News]]''' list of the 100 Greatest Baseball Players, the highest-ranked active player, in 2005.
* Named a finalist to the [[Major League Baseball All-Century Team]] in 1999, but not elected to the team in the fan balloting.
* Rating of 352 on Baseball-Reference.com's Hall of Fame monitor (100 is a good HOF candidate);<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/hof_monitor.shtml|title=Hall of Fame Monitor Leaders |publisher=Baseball-reference.com|date=[[October 28]], [[2007]]|accessdate=2007-11-16}}</ref> 9th among all hitters, highest among hitters not in HOF yet.
* Only the second player to twice have a single-season slugging percentage over .800, with his record .863 in 2001 and .812 in 2004. Babe Ruth was the other, with .847 in 1920 and .846 in 1921.
* Became the first player in history with more times on base (376) than official times at bats (373) in 2004. This was due to the record number of walks, which count as a time on base but not a time at-bat. He had 135 hits, 232 walks, and 9 hit-by-pitches for the 376 number.
* With his father [[Bobby Bonds|Bobby]] (332, 461), leads all father-son combinations in combined home runs (1,094) and stolen bases (975), respectively through [[September 26]], [[2007]].
* Played minor league baseball in both Alaska and Hawaii. In 1983, he played for the Alaska Goldpanners of Fairbanks in the Alaska Baseball League,<ref name=TAGoF>{{cite web|url=http://www.goldpanners.com/Scrapbook/b/bonds-barry_83.htm|title=The Alaska Goldpanners of Fairbanks|publisher=goldpanners.com|date=[[2007]]|accessdate=2008-01-31}}</ref> and in 1986, he played for the Hawaii Islanders in the Pacific Coast League.
== See also ==
* [[300-300 club]]
* [[30-30 club]]
* [[40-40 club]]
* [[50 home run club]]
* [[500 home run club]]
* [[600 home run club]]
* [[700 home run club]]
* [[List of Major League Baseball batting champions]]
* [[List of Major League Baseball home run champions]]
* [[List of Major League Baseball Home Run Records]]
* [[List of Major League Baseball RBI Records]]
* [[List of Major League Baseball doubles records]]
* [[List of Major League Baseball players with 1000 RBI]]
* [[List of Major League Baseball players with 1000 runs]]
* [[List of Major League Baseball players with 400 doubles]]
* [[List of Major League Baseball players with 400 stolen bases]]
* [[List of Major League Baseball players with 500 stolen bases]]
* [[List of Major League Baseball RBI champions]]
* [[List of Major League Baseball runs scored champions]]
* [[List of major league players with 2,000 hits]]
* [[List of MLB individual streaks]]
* [[List of second generation Major League Baseball players|List of second generation MLB players]]
* [[Major League Baseball hitters with three home runs in one game]]
* [[MLB players who have hit 30 or more home runs before the All-Star break]]
* [[List of top 500 Major League Baseball home run hitters]]
* [[List of Barry Bonds 73 Home Runs]]
* [[Milestone home runs by Barry Bonds]]
* [[Progression of the single-season MLB home run record]]
==References==
{{Reflist|2}}
==External links==
{{Commonscat|Barry Bonds}}
* [http://www.barrybonds.com/ barrybonds.com] - Official website
* {{Baseballstats |mlb=111188 |espn=1785 |br= b/bondsba01|fangraphs=1109 |cube=b/barry-bonds}}
* {{imdb name|id=0482787|name=Barry Bonds}}
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|PLACE OF BIRTH=[[Riverside, California|Riverside]], [[California]], [[United States]]
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