Barry Bonds’ LEGACY
Bonds was a multifaceted baseball player, earning numerous Gold Glove and MVP honors
B y Barry Bonds’ lofty standards, it wasn’t especially remarkable—an opposite-field fly ball that carried about 395 feet at hitter-friendly Coors Field in Denver. But when home run No. 762 drifted over the fence in left center field on September 5, 2007, it closed the books on the most prodigious power hitter of all time. The debate over Bonds’ legacy, on the other hand, was merely warming up.
In its most recent vote, the Baseball Writers’ Association of America, which is the Hall’s gatekeeper, granted Bonds 53.8 percent of the vote. Although that’s short of the
