Barry Bonds

Barry Bonds is an American former professional baseball player who starred for the Pittsburgh Pirates and San Francisco Giants. His 762 career home runs remain Major League Baseball’s record.

2001 Major League Baseball season: The 2001 MLB season in which Barry Bonds hit a single-season record 73 home runs. Bonds’s 73 home runs set the single-season record and brought his power into unprecedented focus.
Home run: A baseball hit that allows the batter to circle the bases and score, usually by clearing the outfield fence. Bonds’s career record counts 762 of these scoring hits.
Arizona State Sun Devils baseball: The college baseball program at Arizona State University, where Barry Bonds played from 1983 to 1985. Bonds’s standout college seasons established him as a leading prospect before the 1985 draft.
BALCO scandal: A sports-doping investigation centered on the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative and athletes suspected of using performance-enhancing drugs. The investigation placed Bonds at the center of a national controversy over his later-career performance.
Hank Aaron: An American baseball outfielder who held MLB’s career home run record with 755 until Barry Bonds surpassed it in 2007. Aaron’s record and reputation provide the clearest historical comparison for Bonds’s 762 home runs.
2004 Major League Baseball season: The MLB season in which Barry Bonds set a record with 232 walks and reached base at a .609 rate. Pitchers’ reluctance to challenge Bonds produced extreme walk totals and a record on-base percentage.
Intentional base on balls: A walk awarded when the defense deliberately pitches outside the strike zone to avoid facing a batter. Bonds received a record 688 intentional walks as pitchers often chose not to challenge him.
1985 Major League Baseball draft: The annual selection of amateur baseball players by MLB clubs, in which Pittsburgh chose Barry Bonds sixth overall. The Pirates’ sixth-overall pick brought Bonds into the organization where he began his major-league career.
Mitchell Report: A 2007 report by former senator George Mitchell examining performance-enhancing drug use in Major League Baseball. The report named Bonds among players linked to alleged steroid use, while noting limits in the evidence.
Mark McGwire: An American baseball first baseman who hit 70 home runs in 1998, setting a single-season record later surpassed by Bonds. McGwire’s 1998 record marked an earlier peak in the home-run surge that Bonds later exceeded.

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