Barry Bonds Statue Coming Outdoors of Giants’ Oracle Park

Barry Bonds is subsequent in line to get a statue exterior the San Francisco Giants’ house stadium the place he set MLB’s profession house run document, the group’s CEO mentioned Thursday.

Giants President and Chief Govt Officer Larry Baer was requested throughout a radio interview a couple of statue for Bonds, and he responded that it was “on the radar.” However Baer did not have any particulars of when that might occur.

“Barry is definitely deserving of a statue, and I might say needs to be subsequent up,” Baer mentioned throughout an look on San Francisco’s 95.7 The Recreation. “We don’t have the precise location and the precise date and the precise timing. … It is coming. All I can say is it is coming.”

Bonds performed for San Francisco the final 15 of his 22 large league seasons, hitting 586 of his 762 homers whereas with the Giants from 1993-2007. He set the single-season MLB document with 73 homers in 2001, and hit his record-breaking 756th homer to go Hank Aaron in a house recreation off Washington’s Mike Bacsik on Aug. 7, 2007.

There are at the moment 5 statues exterior Oracle Park, these of Corridor of Famers Willie Mays, Willie McCovey, Juan Marichal, Gaylord Perry and Orlando Cepeda. The Giants retired Bonds’ No. 25 jersey in 2018.

Bonds, a seven-time MVP and 14-time All-Star, shouldn’t be within the Corridor of Fame. He failed to achieve the 75% threshold required throughout his 10 years on the Baseball Writers Affiliation of America’s Corridor of Fame poll, largely due to steroids allegations that dogged him throughout his closing years with the Giants. The Up to date Participant Committee additionally handed on electing Bonds in 2022, although the committee might rethink Bonds’ standing.

Reporting by The Related Press.

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