• Hank Aaron on Bonds breaking his record "I think he will. I hope so," Aaron said. "I've had it long enough. I've gotten a cup of coffee and a dime out of it."
• 7/19/7: Rejuvenated Bonds hits 752 and 753 "At 753, suddenly Bonds is now two homers away from tying Aaron's Major League Baseball career-best 755 and three away from passing him into first place on the all-time list."
• 7/15/7: Home Run chase turns eyes to Fairbanks “Nobody in our organization had a harsh word to say about Barry Bonds,” Dennis said. “He was exemplary and he was just an average college kid. He had a tremendous sense of humor, too.”
• 5/6/7: Hits 744th Home Run : Within 11 of the Hammer  "Whether he's hitting or he's walking, it still changes the game," winning pitcher Noah Lowry said."
• 5/3/7: Free Passes on Rise as Bonds Heats Up "San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds is at it again, terrorizing the National League on his way to breaking Hank Aaron's career home run record, and he's starting to pay the price. Opponents, fearing the return of Bonds' home run prowess, have stopped pitching to him."

• 2/7/6: ESPN plans reality show around home run record chase

• 10/27/5: Hank Aaron foresees Bonds breaking his record - "I think he will. I hope so," Aaron said. "I've had it long enough. I've gotten a cup of coffee and a dime out of it."

• 10/5/5: Reflects on 2001, dad's influence

• 9/10/5: Bonds to come off DL on Monday "Little did John Purdom know growing up that his biggest break would come 90 feet from home. "

• 11/3/4: Wins 12th Silver Slugger

• 10/28/4: Wins 2004 Hank Aaron Award

• 10/3/4: Boone on Bonds: Something Special "You're a star if you're on base .400," Boone said. "How about .600? You have a great, tremendous eye if you walk 100 times. Let me double that, and add another 25. It's numbers we've never seen. If you start breaking Babe Ruth's numbers, you're doing something pretty special. No one's ever walked the earth that can hit like that man." Bonds will blow away his own major-league record for highest on-base percentage (.582 in 2002). In fact, Bonds will now possess four of the top 11 seasons for OBP — his last four seasons, almost inarguably the best four-year stretch in baseball history."

• 9/17/4: Hitting 700 was unbelievable

• 8/31/4: No debating it -- Bonds is NL MVP - "As Marlins manager Jack McKeon told reporters last week, "You can't tell me the Babe was any better than this guy. You can't tell me this guy isn't the best player in the history of the game."

• 5/4/4: National League Player of the Month

• 4/12/4: Ties Willie Mays with 660th HR | Say Hey, Say Goodbye

• 2/24/4: Bonds just wants to have fun

• 11/18/3: Wins Sixth MVP Award! - 28 of 32 first-place votes
• 11/14/3: HR Run OK with Hank
  11/6/3: The Inimitable Barry Bonds "Only one player in the entire history of Major League Baseball has ever finished a season with an OPS 500 points (or better) above the average of their league, for three years in a row.  That player is Barry Bonds"
• 10/28/3: Wins 11th Silver Slugger Award
• 9/3: A Son's Gift to His Father We Can All Share - "Something, somebody, must pay. Barry knows what Bobby would want as a monument -- the same thing he always asked for: Greatness. So the baseball must suffer. "
• 8/31: Emotional Return: Homers in First Game Back (7 Behind Mays for Third All-Time) "Trainer Stan Conte took Bonds' pulse in the dugout. It was between 150 and 160 beats a minute. It should have been closer to 100 or 110. Conte suggested that Bonds come out of the game, and Bonds demanded to keep playing... It was Bonds' 40th homer -- one more than his dad's career high -- giving him seven seasons of 40 or more. That broke the club record of six, which belonged to Mays, his godfather."
• 8/22: Move over Babe and Hank "The year after his spectacular 2001 season, Bonds and Aaron met to talk baseball at the Giants' spring training home in Scottsdale, Ariz. Bonds has grown up around greatness -- with his father, Bobby, and his godfather, Willie Mays, and many others -- but that spring in 2002 was the first time Aaron and the younger Bonds had had a meaningful talk. Aaron told Bonds that records were made to be broken. He told him that he had held the home run record long enough. Bonds was flabbergasted. "He told me," Bonds said at the time, "to get all I could get out of the game of baseball."
• 8/9: Baseball around the clock - Richard Larson "The Panners' most famous roster addition for the World Series came in 1983 when they added Barry Bonds to the lineup. Bonds joined an outfield that already featured Oddibe McDowell and Shane Mack. Bonds batted .222 in six World Series games with the Panners as the team went 4-2 and came up shy of the title. Bonds had a double, walked three times, scored two runs, drove in two runs and stole four bases in five attempts."
• 3/28: Remains true to himself
• 2/19: Candid about career and surgery "Maybe Tony Gwynn will let me be a hitting coach (at San Diego State)," Bonds said of the former San Diego Padres outfielder, who won eight NL batting titles. "Now I've got something he has."
• 2/3: Accepts NL MVP and Hank Aaron Award
• 10/21: Three-for-three!  Sets record for 7th Home Run of Postseason! - Three in World Series. Reggie Jackson holds the record of five in the 1977 Series.
• 10/20: 9th Inning home run second of series
• 10/19: Homers in first ever World Series at-bat | Bonds delivers
• 10/14: Anybody But Barry Bonds
• 10/6: An interview about 'When I was a Kid'
• 10/1: Ready to exorcise playoff demons?
• 8/10: Hits 600th Home Run!
• 6/27: He and Jeff Kent mum on dugout flap
• 6/2: 586 Ties Robinson at Fourth Place All-Time HR
• 5/25: Passes McGwire for 5th place all-time HR
• 4/8: Named NL Player of the Week
• 4/6: 5th HR (fastest ever) wins it in 10th inning
• 4/4: Scaling new heights: 4HR in 2G - "he is just 16 stolen bases shy of becoming the game's only player to hit 500 home runs and steal 500 bases."
• 4/2: Hits two out in season opener
• 1/15: Cashes in with 5-year, $90 million deal
• 1/4: USAToday's Player of the Year

• 12/26: Named AP Male Athlete of the Year

• 12/21: The Greatest Season Ever?

• 11/20: In a class by himself

• 11/19: Wins Unprecedented 4th MVP Award

• 11/10: Being pursued by Mets

• 10/31: Wins Hank Aaron Award

• 10/30: Recognized by House of Representatives

• 10/28: Player's Choice Player of Year

• 10/27: Honored for Home Run Record

• 10/20: Up for Player of the Year

• 10/14: 71st HR going up for auction

• 10/7: Homers in last game, lifts record to 73

• 10/7: Best season of all time? .500+ On Base, 73 HR, 137 RBI, .867 Slugging

• 10/6: Smashes #s 71, 72, McGwire's record

• 10/6: ASU Stories

• 10/4: MLB's September Player of the Month

• 10/3: Breaks The Babe's record for walks

• 9/30: We Finally Notice Bonds

• 9/29: Emotional Bonds Launches #68

• 9/29: Ties Reggie Jackson For 7th Most HRs All-Time

• 9/28: Face the facts: Barry is MVP

• 9/26: A lock for unprecedented fourth MVP

• 9/10: MOVE OVER MARIS! Hits HR 61,62,63.  All-time single season HR record for lefties!! - #63 given up by Todd Belitz (96)

• 9/6: Joins the Babe at 60

• 8/12: All-time fastest to 50 HR ; 9th in HRs in MLB history w/544

• 8/8: Hits Number 48 in Giants' win

• 7/22: Ties Mantle for Ninth all-time

• 6/20: Ties Record for most HR prior to break

• 6/16: Hits 2 HR ; On Pace for 87

• 6/13: Hits HR 33; 527 Career

• 6/6: Streaking LF'r is "on a mission"

• 5/31: Passes McCov, Ted; ahead of MAC's HR pace

• 5/31: Bonds vs. 70

• 5/31: Bonds may be best LF ever

• 5/27: Hits Giants 12,000th home run

• 5/27: Top Ten in All Offensive Categories

• 5/21: 6 HR in three games, 4 consecutive

• 4/19: HR501 ; Homered in six straight games.

• 4/18: 17th Player to Join 500 home run club

• 4/17: Takes aim at 500th home run

• 4/15: Hits HR number 499

• 4/15: Bonds approaching greatness

• 4/15: Barry Bonds - Giant of the Game

• 4/13: Bonds Hits Home Run # 497

• 4/11: Inside the Fans' Poll - ASU's Best: Bonds (83), McDowell (83), Kelly (89)

• 4/11: 5 home runs away from elite 500 HR club

• 4/6: Countdown to 500 Home Runs

• 4/2: Opening Day staple: Bonds (83) homers as Giants beat Padres

• 11/12: Barry MVP OF JAPAN SERIES

• 11/3: Barry smashes two run HR in Game 1 ; US beats Japan 8-5

• 9/21: Bonds' 48th Homer Ties Gehrig for 17th all-time

• 9/20: Behind the Numbers: Barry Bonds is heating up

• 9/18: Has 19 RBI in his last 11 games and has 101 RBI this season. He has nine seasons with 100-plus RBI.

• 6/5: Bonds'  24th homer takes MLB lead

• 5/30: Bonds Named National League Player of the Week

• 5/19: Barry Bonds is back!

• 5/15: Barry Bond's Bad Back - A History

• 5/4: Joins List of Greatest left fielders of all time

It’s a lot tougher to hit when you go up to the plate knowing you might see one, two, three pitches to hit in a week. It’s not easy to hit that way. And if you see that pitch to hit, you might not hit it for a home run. If you only get a base hit, everybody boos you. --Mark McGwire

(Weight training) has made him extra-productive, in what probably should have been the twilight of his career . . . There’s nothing he can’t do on a baseball field. There’s no telling what he can do. --Mike Piazza

If he had been pitched to all year long, who’s to say he wouldn’t have hit 100 home runs? The guy is that good. --Jim Tracy

He’s been ridiculously consistent for 15 years. To put up those kinds of numbers year after year, now he’s 37 and only getting better. It’s like he’s in his prime. I hope I’m in that kind of shape when I’m 37. --Derek Jeter

He can do anything. Move a runner from second to third. Stolen base in a big situation? I’ll steal it for you. Home run? You got it. --Bobby Cox

No one’s quicker than him. You can’t sneak anything past him . . . He’s not a home run hitter. He’s just a great hitter who happens to be hitting a ton of homers. --Greg Maddux

He and Hank (Aaron) both have that recognition. They both recognize the difference between fastballs, curves, changeups and sliders really well. You’re not out in front or behind. You’re right there. --Dusty Baker

If you could explain it, I would have been in grooves like this a long time ago. You’re almost in shock. I come around and touch home plate and I’m in the dugout thinking, 'What did I just do?' You don’t know what to think. --Barry Bonds

In '98, (the record) was only 61. And then Mark McGwire came and hit 70 and that was like 'wow.' Now you see 73--that's unbelievable. --Sammy Sosa

Not a chance . . . I’m not Mark McGwire. I’m just not that powerful a hitter. Mark is so much stronger than I am. --Barry Bonds, June 21, 2001

I recruited Barry. I really knew him. But we had different requirements, and he didn’t get into USC. He was intelligent but didn’t want to do the work. They all [Bonds, Mark McGwire and Randy Johnson] could have been on the same team. --Former Southern California coach Rod Dedeaux

His best attribute was confidence. What makes Barry special is he’s extremely strong mentally . . . He wasn’t as physical a player then, especially these last three years. He was a frail kid with a quick bat, 165-170 (pounds), max. You’re talking about a whole different animal now. --Former Arizona State teammate Don Wakamatsu (85)

"He was more emotionally drained than anybody because he was going after the record, But that's the challenge of baseball: to come back emotionally. That was awesome. That was another big blow for us." - " Giants manager Dusty Baker

Serra HS

"Barry showed his athletic abilities in three sports while at Serra. Barry made the jump from freshman baseball to the varsity as a sophomore and became a three year starter in center field. Over his career Barry averaged .404 and hit .467 as a senior! His total of 87 bases in a season is second in the school's record books. He was a 2nd team All-WCAL selection as a sophomore and first team all league as a junior and senior. For his outstanding career, Barry was awarded All-American status in 1982. A second round draft choice of the Giants in '82, Barry, instead, chose to attend Arizona State on a baseball scholarship. Barry was a 3 year starter for the Sun Devils and was named All-American as a junior before being the number one selection of the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1985. Barry became the first player in major league history to hit 30 home runs and steal 50 bases in a season in 1990. That same season he was the National League's Most Valuable Player and narrowly missed repeating the award in 1991. Bonds played JV football and varsity football as a junior where he was regarded as an exciting receiver, but he decided to concentrate on basketball and his baseball career as a senior. Barry was a two-year starter as a Padre hoopster, earning All-WCAL first team honors as a senior when he helped lead the 8-4 Padres to the WCAL playoffs. "

2003 Team Set

2002 ABL Top Prospects