"The Tenth Inning" starring Barry Bonds

Without doubt, Barry Bonds was central to the baseball era that filmmaker Ken Burns has visited and filmed in the making of "The Tenth Inning," a four-hour epic that will premiere on PBS on Sept. 28 and 29.

The film begins with Bonds' upbringing and ends with the slugger smashing Hank Aaron's all-time home run record amid widespread suspicion of steroid use. Says Ken Burns:

"He is a symbol, for better or worse, for the last two decades of baseball, which are among the most consequential in the history of the game."

Bud Selig ... not a witness

Bud Selig Defends MLB Steroid Testing; Stays Out of Bonds, Clemens Trials

  

Bud Selig, Major League Baseball commissioner, says that he does NOT expect to be called as a witness in the Barry Bonds or Roger Clemens trials.

Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens: a lot in common

Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens have at least two things in common: they each won one of baseball's two top individual awards seven times and now they've both been indicted for allegedly lying under oath that they knowingly took performance-enhancing drugs.

The hardware in their trophy cases suggests that Bonds and Clemens were the best hitter and best pitcher of their time.


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Clemens' best option: Misremember his ego

Plead guilty. Now. Or risk the worst punishment imaginable -- a permanent place alongside Barry Bonds as the two-faced monster of baseball's Steroid Era.


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U.S.setback begs question: will Barry Bonds' perjury trial be dropped?

Barry Bonds took another round from the U.S. prosecutors who put his trial on hold in March 2009.

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, upholding the ruling of the lower court, determined that Bonds will not be faced at his federal trial for perjury and obstruction of justice with, among other things,positive results from certain urine samples.



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ESPN: Does this decision mean the end of the perjury case against Bonds?

No. It is a serious setback for the federal prosecutors, but it is not the end of their efforts to convict Bonds of lying to the grand jury about his use of performance-enhancing drugs.


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Barry Bonds, Mike Bacsik, t-ball and 756

Tim Redding, now a pitcher for the Colorado Rockies, has no doubt that Nationals pitcher Mike Bacsik grooved #756 for Mr. Barry Bonds.


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Barry Bonds' son throws a strike at his mom!!!

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (AP)—The 20-year-old son of former San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds(notes) has pleaded not guilty to five misdemeanor charges related to a fight with his mother.

Nikolai Bonds was accompanied by his famous father when he appeared at San Mateo County Superior Court on Tuesday.

Police say Nikolai Bonds threw a doorknob at his mother, 45-year-old Sun Bonds, and spit in her face during a Dec. 5 confrontation in Menlo Park, in the San Francisco Bay area. Officers also say he blocked his mother from leaving, destroyed property worth $400 and threatened an officer.

Mark McGwire acknowledges steriod use

His record of 70 home runs in 1998 was surpassed by Barry Bonds’(notes) 73 homers in 2001—the year of McGwire’s retirement and the apex of the Steroids Era. Bonds himself has denied knowingly using illegal drugs but has been indicted on charges he made false statements to a federal grand jury and obstructed justice.

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Unemployment in 2010 for Barry Bonds --- Borris

After 22 seasons in the major leagues, Barry Lamar Bonds' playing career has died.

It ended not with a home run — or even a strikeout — as it should be in baseball. Instead, it ends in semi-exile, without even a phone call to lift Bonds from the unemployment line.

His agent, Jeff Borris, told the San Francisco Chronicle as much Thursday, saying it's all-but impossible for the 45-year-old Bonds to find work heading into 2010.

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Barry Bonds visits Arizona State University

Former Sun Devil slugger Barry Bonds visits ASU Baseball Camp

Attendees of the recent ASU Baseball camp got the surprise of a lifetime when former Sun Devil star and Major League Baseball Home Run King Barry Bonds stopped by to speak with the campers.

Bonds visited his old stomping grounds of Packard Stadium to see Coach Pat Murphy and impart some wisdom on the campers. Bonds played at Arizona State from 1983 to 1985, hitting .347 and slugging 45 career home runs. He was an All-American and All-Pac-10 performer, helping lead the Sun Devils to the College World Series in 1983 and 1984.

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Hal McCoy: "I won't vote for Barry Bonds!!!

Veteran Cincinnati Hall of Fame sportswriter Hal McCoy comments that: "I won't vote for Barry Bonds."


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