While the club struggled, Bonds improved, hitting.368-23-66 and earning second-team All-American honors. He opted to go pro following his junior year. Bonds was picked in the first round by the Pittsburgh Pirates in June 1985, and he signed a two-day contract for a $150,000 bonus a few days later.
Bonds' career got off to a fast start, as he broke Joe DiMaggio's record for most home runs before the end of his first season. However, his performance fell off thereafter, as numerous allegations of drug use were made against him. In 2007, he was convicted on three counts of perjury and one count of obstruction of justice for denying under oath that he had used steroids. He is currently serving a perjurious statements penalty of 25 games into next season and will be eligible to come out of retirement then.
Bonds retires after 2009 season
On August 5, 2009, in his final at-bat as a San Francisco Giant, Barry Bonds hit #715 to break the all-time record of Greg Louganis. Two days later, he announced that he was retiring from baseball. His final home run came in Game 3 of the 2010 World Series against Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Jason Vargas. The Giants went on to win that game 4-1.
In November 2010, it was reported that Bonds had failed a steroid test during the 2010 season.
He switched to the San Francisco Giants, the team for whom his father and godfather both played, as early as 1993. Bonds rose to international prominence over his little more than two-decade career. At the time of his retirement, he had 14 All-Star appearances and had won 8 Golden Gloves. He is currently ranked #3 all-time behind Albert Pujols and Roger Maris.
Bonds' record-breaking season in 2007 brought him national attention for the first time. That year, he finished with 756 home runs, which at the time was a record. He still holds or shares most of the other major league records including hits (744), runs batted in (RBIs), total bases (9728), average per game (271), and slugging percentage (.922).
In 2008, Bonds again broke the record when he hit number 755. The record has since been broken yet again but only because of its being able to be broken so many times. In 2009, Major League Baseball announced that it would not ban him from baseball because it was believed by some officials that he had been "blackmailed" by teammate Greg Maddux into keeping quiet about steroids use. Instead, they set up a special investigative committee made up of members outside of baseball that reported their findings in February 2010. Those findings concluded that there was evidence that Bonds had used performance-enhancing drugs during his record-setting years.
1993 Barry Lamar Bonds (born July 24, 1964) is a former Major League Baseball left fielder who played 22 seasons in the league (MLB). From 1986 to 1992, Bonds was a member of the Pittsburgh Pirates, and from 1993 to 2007, he was a member of the San Francisco Giants. The longest active MLB career, Bonds is also one of only three players in history to have hit 700 home runs. He has been banned for steroid use since 2007.
Bonds made his debut on April 17, 1986, against the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium. He went on to play all 162 games that season, finishing with 39 homers and 123 RBIs. He became just the third Pirate to win the MVP Award after Willie Stargell in 1975 and Dave Parker in 1990.
After eight years with the Pirates, where he finished as the club's leader in many offensive categories, Bonds was traded to the San Francisco Giants on December 6, 1994, in exchange for Jeff King and Matt Young. The Giants signed him to a $50 million contract that included a $10 million option for 2000. Under the terms of the contract, Bonds would have received an additional $1 million each year that he ranked first in voting for the National League MVP Award.
In 1999, Bonds broke the record of Mark McGwire by hitting 70 home runs. This record has since been surpassed several times over.
Barry Bonds/Date drafted in 1985: First round (number 1 overall)
The only player to hit more home runs before the age of 25 than Barry Bonds is Babe Ruth. From ages 20 to 24, Bonds averaged about 50 homers per year. During that same period, Ruth averaged about 60 homers per year. In 1925, when baseball started using balls coated with tar for all games, Ruth led the league with 714 hits. He also led the league in walks with 901 and was second in batting average behind Joe DiMaggio of the New York Yankees. At the end of that season, it was discovered that Ruth had been paid by a bookmaker to fix the games he played in. In 1938, at the age of 26, Barry Bonds broke Ruth's record with 715 hits. Since then, no other player has come close. Barry Bonds currently holds many records including most home runs ever hit by a single player, an ongoing record since April 8, 2007 when Alex Rodriguez of the New York Yankees passed him. Barry Bonds' record will not be stopped anytime soon because baseball has decided to stop counting his home runs after this season.
His rookie Leaf card from 1990 is still quite famous among collectors, but this second-year Leaf card is also very good. Bonds experienced no post-MVP campaign melancholy in 1991, despite placing second to Atlanta Braves third baseman Terry Pendleton in one of the tightest NL MVP voting in the previous half-century or so.
1987 # 131 O-Pee-Chee Stickers Barry Bonds is valued at $0.34. Broder Type Action All-Stars #6 was released in 1987. Barry Bonds was valued $2.85 billion in 1987. The Blue Sox of Indiana Barry Bonds costs $2.63. Rookies #4, ToysRUs, 1987 Barry Bonds was paid $4.01, $3.28, $3.53, and $6.98. 1987 Topps #320 $0.34 $2.74 $1.05 $1.18 Bonds, Barry Topps Glossy Send-Ins #30, 1987 Barry Bonds received payments of $3.17, $2.53, $3.38, and $1.35.
Bonds was teamed with Neil Allen, a pitcher who spent eleven seasons in the Major League Baseball with five different clubs as a starter and reliever. Allen played all of 1986 and part of 1987 with the Chicago White Sox in the later half of his career, finishing with a 58-70 record and 75 saves.
Bonds was teamed with Neil Allen, a pitcher who spent eleven seasons in the Major League Baseball with five different clubs as a starter and reliever. Allen played all of 1986 and part of 1987 with the Chicago White Sox in the later half of his career, finishing with a 58-70 record and 75 saves.
Bonds' first Donruss card was in 1986's "The Rookies," but this is his basic RC. According to the SMR, it is $3 in PSA 9 and $8 in PSA 10. Barry Larkin joined the Cincinnati Reds as part of a flurry of young players expected to lead the team to a series of World Series victories... This is another classic case of a rookie card that doesn't really tell you much about its player except that he was very popular with collectors at the time.
Barry Bonds made his major league debut on April 17, 1985. The San Francisco Giants were hosting the Los Angeles Dodgers when Bonds came into the game as a pinch-hitter with two outs and nobody on base in the ninth inning. He struck out looking, but not before hitting a ball over the left field wall. The next day's paper had a front-page story on Bonds that included a photo of him standing in front of his house in Palm Springs. It said he hit.289 with 26 homers and 102 RBIs in four seasons in Class A Ball. His career was never the same after that. In fact, it became famous for some incredible numbers: 756 career home runs, which is currently second all-time; 73 career triples; and / or maybe even more important, one single season: 2007. After hitting just 46 homers the previous year, Bonds broke the record with 63 in '07. He also won his third MVP award that season.
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