Column: Bonds, Giants still the best fit
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Barry Bonds' return to the San Francisco Giants feels a bit like a shotgun wedding.
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The subject of Barry Bonds never gets old to some people.
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NEW YORK -- Barry Bonds, who could be in line for a seventh Most Valuable Player award, Thursday was named the best player in the major leagues by his peers.
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By Barry Bonds&#39; own humble assessment, this year&#39;s Most Valuable Player vote in the National League could have gone any way, could have gone three ways.
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Barry Bonds and the San Francisco Giants reached agreement on a $16 million, one-year contract Thursday night that will keep the controversial slugger in the Bay Area to take aim at baseball's home run record.
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Though Barry Bonds will treasure his 700th homer, he probably wanted the San Francisco Giants' 4-1 victory over San Diego even more. Bonds hit his latest historic homer in the third inning Friday night, leading the Giants to their sixth straight win in the opener of their final nine-game homestand.
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The San Francisco Giants are seriously interested in bringing back Barry Bonds, despite the notion the club might prefer to part ways with the aging slugger.
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Barry Bonds needs a job. How else will he be able to hit 22 home runs and become the career leader.
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Barry Bonds keeps saying he just wants San Francisco to start winning and doesn't care about hitting home runs. He didn't homer, but he did hit. And the Giants finally pulled off a victory at Chase Field against one of baseball's hottest teams.
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San Francisco, CA (Sports Network) - The San Francisco Giants have scheduled a news conference prior to Tuesday night&#39;s game against Houston at which time the club is expected to announce that Barry Bonds will remain under contract through the 2006 season
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San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds was selected The Sporting News&#39; 2004 baseball player of the year after a season in which he hit .
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Even if Barry Bonds shows up on time to spring training Monday, he likely won't practice with the team until he signs his contract. The San Francisco slugger is not on the Giants' 40-man roster, which currently stands at 39 after catcher Mike Matheny went on the voluntary retirement list with a concussion.
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SAN FRANCISCO - Letâs defer to the slugger-philosopher, Barry Bonds, for Saturdayâs life-lesson. âItâ he said in reference to the San Francisco Giantsâ latest biggest win of the season, âis as big as it is today.
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It was one of those just-between-slugger moments: David Ortiz huddling with Barry Bonds when the Giants visited Fenway Park last weekend.
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When the San Francisco Giants  play baseball, slugger Barry Bonds and the other players are  far from the only ones thinking about hitting home runs.
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So Barry Bonds wears a big red &#39;S&#39; on his chest. That&#39;s no knock on the mortals who populate the rest of the National League.
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Barry Bonds always prefers to reach his milestones at home. With the San Francisco Giants on the road for the next three games, hitting his 700th homer in the city where Hank Aaron began his pursuit of the career home run record would be almost as special.