Break out the asterisks.Break out the asterisks. Barry Bonds Barry Lamar Bonds (born July 24 1964 in Riverside, California) is a left fielder for the San Francisco Giants of Major League Baseball. He is the son of former major league All-Star Bobby Bonds, the godson of Hall of Famer Willie Mays, and a distant cousin of Hall of Famer Reggie is the holder of major-league baseball's record for career home runs by an abuser of performance-enhancing drugs This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. . Typically, baseball players do not radically increase their production at age 35, let alone grow into a new shoe and cap size. Bonds did all of that, apparently because he could not stand to see other steroid abusers eclipse what, until that point, had been his entirely natural excellence. It thus became possible for him to break a record Hank hank n. 1. A coil or loop. 2. Nautical A ring on a stay attached to the head of a jib or staysail. 3. A looped bundle, as of yarn. Aaron had established through an extraordinary consistency--a 20-year period of never hitting fewer than 20 homers in a season and never more than 47. Whatever number Bonds eventually settles on for the new career record will mark, not his considerable talent, but his infamy Notoriety; condition of being known as possessing a shameful or disgraceful reputation; loss of character or good reputation. At Common Law, infamy was an individual's legal status that resulted from having been convicted of a particularly reprehensible crime, rendering him . |
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