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Salon.com April 1, 2002 Joan Walsh |
Barry Bonds' 2001 season Many baseball fans will never adore the San Francisco Giants' moody superstar. But en route to perhaps the greatest individual season in the sport's history, Bonds emerged as the wounded hero of a wounded nation... |
Salon.com August 30, 2001 Joan Walsh |
If Jeff Kent were black The San Francisco Giants' All-Star second baseman got off easy for blasting Barry Bonds to Sports Illustrated, because the media likes him and hates Bonds. Could race (say it isn't so!) have anything to do with it? |
Sports Illustrated August 21, 2001 Rick Reilly |
He Loves Himself Barry Much In the San Francisco Giants' clubhouse, everybody knows the score: 24-1. There are 24 teammates, and there's Barry Bonds... |
Salon.com April 18, 2001 Joan Walsh |
A strange love Or: How one Giants fan learned to stop worrying and love Barry Bonds, just in time to appreciate his 500th home run... |
Salon.com September 29, 2000 Allen Barra |
The greatness of Barry Bonds Sure, he's totally unlovable, but the San Francisco Giants superstar is still the best player in the National League, and maybe the best in baseball... |
Sports Central August 8, 2007 Bijan C. Bayne |
In Bonds, Did We Create a Longball Monster? The most revered and memorized individual record in sport is tainted. |
Sports Central August 23, 2004 Piet Van Leer |
NL MVP? It's No Contest If numbers alone dictated the National League's Most Valuable Player, there would be plenty of debate. But they don't, so there isn't. |
Sports Central March 8, 2006 Mike Round |
Hold the Front Page: Barry Was Juiced We don't need two guys from the San Francisco Chronicle to tell us BALCO Barry was playing dirty. |
Sports Central January 7, 2005 Bijan C. Bayne |
'Roid Rage in the Drive For 755 All eyes will be watching Barry Bonds as he tries to break the all-time home run record held by Hank Aaron. |
Science News June 30, 2001 Ivars Peterson |
Random Home Runs In the current issue of the Journal of Recreational Mathematics, economist Paul M. Sommers of Middlebury College, Vermont, addresses the question of whether top home-run sluggers knock out homers at random or whether they hit in streaks... |
Sports Central March 3, 2006 Sara Normand |
Bonds Finding New Ways to Make Headlines If you haven't already seen more than enough of Bonds than you ever wanted in this past week, just wait. His new reality TV series airs on April 4 on ESPN2. |
Sports Illustrated October 30, 2002 Rick Reilly |
'Back Off or I'll Snap!' Don't you feel a little sorry for Barry Bonds? Nobody, not even Barry Bonds, deserves a World Series week like he just had. |
Salon.com October 25, 2002 Allen Barra |
Barry and the Babe Forget the nostalgia freaks droning on and on about the Mythical White Ballplayer era. Barry Bonds is the greatest player in baseball history. |
Sports Illustrated November 13, 2001 Tom Verducci |
Scorecard Mark McGwire leaves the game the way he played it -- with class... |
Sports Central May 22, 2007 Paul Tenorio |
Should Barry Bonds Be a Hall of Famer? Barry Bonds surely had Hall of Fame numbers before the steroid controversy erupted. So does his alleged steroid use change the picture -- and should it? |
Sports Central April 7, 2005 Vincent Musco |
Bonds Leaves Us Feeling Confused Barry Bonds is positioned to break Babe Ruth's home run record but other issues such as steroid use cloud his image. |
Sports Illustrated May 15, 2001 Jeff Pearlman |
In the Swing The Cardinals swept into first, thanks in large part to surprising slugger J.D. Drew... |
AskMen.com Steve Seepersaud |
Top 20: Baseball Players Of All Time This season, Barry Bonds continues his assault on the Major League Baseball record books, closing in on the career home run title. He's easily one of the best players the game has ever seen. |
Popular Mechanics April 2005 Allen St. John |
Barry the Babe Who's the better hitter? When Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants bats for Babe Ruth's record a few weeks from now, it'll be a whole new ballgame for stat-obsessed fans. |
Sports Central March 4, 2006 Greg Wyshynski |
In Bed With Barry Bonds That Barry Bonds would have a weekly reality TV show on ESPN shouldn't surprise anyone, because he's practically had one for the last several years. |
Sports Central February 27, 2006 Dave Golokhov |
I Hate Mondays: What Does 756 Mean? Nobody cares about the prospects of the San Francisco Giants winning the World Series. It's all Bonds and it's all 756. Can he do it? And will it be relevant? |
Salon.com June 20, 2001 Allen Barra |
The best season ever? Barry Bonds is on his way, if you look at the stat -- and it isn't home runs -- that measures offensive performance most accurately... |
Sports Central July 26, 2007 Kevin Beane |
The Beauty of Basking in Barry Is there a better player, a better dignitary, a better man to accept the torch from Hank Aaron than Barry bonds? No one immediately comes to mind. |
Sports Central March 1, 2005 Eric Poole |
The Two Sides of Barry Bonds With Bonds, there's never any shortage of people who done him wrong. But Bonds can't simply be dismissed as a whiner. The truth is more nuanced than that, if only because he's not always wrong. |
Sports Illustrated May 3, 2001 Stephen Cannella |
Meaningless milestones Baseball's 'magic numbers' don't mean what they used to... |
Salon.com October 4, 2002 King Kaufman |
Why isn't Barry Bonds productive? Because of a colossal managerial blunder that has him hitting cleanup instead of leadoff. |
Sports Central April 27, 2004 Piet Van Leer |
Why Stats Can't Measure Bonds' True Worth As of Monday, Barry Bonds had reached base safely in 36 of his last 44 plate appearances. He is being touted as "the best baseball player anyone will ever see." |
Salon.com October 15, 2002 King Kaufman |
Who needs champions? The evil possibility of an all-wild card World Series has come to pass, and you know what? It looks pretty good from here. |
Salon.com September 22, 2000 Joan Walsh |
Who let the dogs out? If you don't know, you haven't been following the best team -- and the best kept secret -- in baseball. |
Sports Central May 16, 2006 Bijan C. Bayne |
Prince Albert: Best Hitter You'll Ever See? Now MLB has its own LeBron James in Albert Pujols, but they're not telling anyone. |
Sports Illustrated September 17, 2002 Tom Verducci |
Taking the fifth Barry Bonds' multidimensional game fuels another MVP bid. |
Sports Central April 3, 2006 Bill Hazell |
Baseball's Anti-Race is On Step right up. Fasten your seat-belts, it's going to be an awkward, tension-filled season. |
Salon.com October 21, 2002 King Kaufman |
"Oh! My God!" The Giants and Angels don't seem able to play a dull World Series game. Even the participants have been amazed so far. |
Sports Central July 3, 2007 Scott Shepherd |
2007 MLB All-Star Snubs When the players and coaches filled out the remaining roster spots with worthy participants, they dropped the ball. |
Sports Central July 26, 2011 Brad Oremland |
Barry Bonds, on the Edge of Cooperstown A Hall of Fame that doesn't recognize Barry Bonds isn't serving its mission. |
Sports Central April 23, 2007 Eric Poole |
Flashback to 756 Hank Aaron said he is too old for "this excrement" that would go along with chasing Barry Bonds around the country waiting for home run number 756. |
Sports Illustrated June 7, 2001 Stephen Cannella |
Little Giant With all eyes on Bonds, Aurilia quietly thrives... |
Sports Central March 25, 2004 David Zirin |
The Case For Barry Bonds For Sports Illustrated to hang the asterisk on Bonds was to publicly call history's greatest baseball career into question |
Sports Central April 8, 2006 Bijan C. Bayne |
MLB Plays Hardball Too Little, Too Late Baseball commissioner Bud Selig's recent appointment of former Senator George Mitchell to investigate past drug use and abuse is misguided on many fronts. |
Salon.com October 5, 2000 Brian Sulkis |
Mets robbed by wrong coast team! ESPN brings you the latest baseball scandal. But at least they're finally talking about the Giants... |
Sports Central March 22, 2005 Andre Watson |
McGwire Loses in Court of Public Opinion For a person who seemed larger-than-life while he was on the baseball diamond, Mark McGwire's poor performance at the congressional hearing on steroid use in baseball will have a lasting effect on his legacy. |
Sports Central February 18, 2005 Bijan C. Bayne |
Bonds' Stock Falling: Was Barry Ever "Best"? For three years, assorted scribes, radio sports talk hosts, and ESPN heads have declared Barry Bonds as either the greatest ballplayer of all-time, the best hitter who ever lived, or the best player active today. |
Salon.com August 31, 2002 King Kaufman |
Savoring the season that almost wasn't 2002 hasn't been a classic, but it's great that the heroics of Schilling, A-Rod and the rest won't be lost. |
Sports Illustrated May 23, 2000 Stephen Cannella |
Inside Baseball Compact, pesky Fernando Vina sets the table for Cardinals' big men |
Sports Central May 10, 2005 Matt Thomas |
Barry Bonds, a Legacy in Transition Barry Lamar Bonds holds his own when viewed in light of standards set by the game's all-time greats. But his problems start and finish with his attitude. |
Sports Central August 3, 2005 Bijan C. Bayne |
The Steroid Storm: Plausible Denial? A picture is taking shape in baseball that makes sense of the decade since the 1994 strike. The power surge, the nagging injuries, and so on. Yes, the picture is coming into focus, and it's ugly |
Sports Central March 30, 2006 Jeff Kallman |
The Trouble With Barry He may pass Hank Aaron as a home run hitter and a ballplayer, but Hank Aaron is light years past Barry Bonds as a man. |
Sports Illustrated October 3, 2000 Stephen Cannella |
Inside Baseball Homers began the year with a bang but ended with a (relative) whimper... |
Salon.com January 16, 2002 Allen Barra |
This just in: Giuliani, Steinbrenner are sleazebags! Plus: Barry Bonds' $90 million deal is a no-brainer... |
Sports Central April 11, 2006 Mark Chalifoux |
Sports Gospel on Bonds This has got to go down as one of the worst produced shows in the history of reality TV. |