Barry Bonds

2019 CALIFORNIA SPORTS HALL OF FAME INDUCTEE

Barry Bonds is Major League Baseball’s all-time home run leader with 762 career home runs. A seven-time MVP, Bonds played 22 seasons in the majors making the All-Star team 14 times, while winning 12 Silver Slugger Awards and eight Rawlings Gold Glove Awards. In addition, Bonds won the NL Hank Aaron Awards three times, led the majors in home runs three times, including setting the single-season record with 73 in 2001, was a two-time batting champion (2002, 2004) and led the NL in slugging percentage seven times. Bonds began his career with Pittsburgh in 1986, before joining the Giants in 1993 and played his final season in 2007, retiring with the fourth-best career OPS in history after leading the NL in OPS nine times.

Bonds rejoined the game in the 2016 season as the hitting coach for the Miami Marlins. In the spring of 2017, he returned home to San Francisco and joined the San Francisco Giants front office as a Special Advisor to the CEO.

A devout family man, it was Barry’s love and devotion to his children that led him to launch the Bonds Family Foundation with the goal to encourage, promote and fund programs designed to improve educational achievements, standard of living and quality of life for underprivileged youth in the Bay Area. Having grown up in the Bay Area, Bonds feels it is essential to make a difference in the local community. Bonds’ philanthropic efforts include supporting several local and national organizations including UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital, Super Stars Literacy, Reading Partners San Francisco Bay Area, Best Buddies, No Greater Sacrifice and TAM Cycling, to name a few. Other programs he has supported include the Barry Bonds Bone Marrow Campaign to Celebrate Life, The Field O’ Dreams Project for Marin City and AASK America, which is a special-needs adoption program that helps increase the number of children who receive permanent homes. In retirement, Barry continues his support of the San Francisco community, and enjoys the time he is able to focus on his foundation’s efforts.