Bonds opts out of Home Run Derby
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Baseball Barry Bonds will sit out of the Home Run Derby Monday night, opting to rest his tired body before Tuesday night's All-Star Game in San Francisco. "Nope," Bonds said yesterday in Cincinnati when asked about the Derby. "Especially when you're 42. It's not that you don't want to, it's that you just can't anymore. You can't. It's too long. ...
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Barry Bonds didn't have to worry about another "not-in-my-ballpark" manager ordering his team to pitch around the San Francisco slugger.
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Given the choice, Colorado Rockies manager Clint Hurdle said he wouldn&#39;t let Barry Bonds hurt his team. Hurdle went back on his word and got away with it.
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A bout with the flu hasn't affected Barry Bonds' swing. Bonds hit his first home run of spring training, connecting in the fourth inning against Esteban Loaiza on Friday in the San Francisco Giants' 5-3 loss to the Oakland Athletics.
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Soon after Barry Bonds arrived at Shea Stadium on Tuesday, the San Francisco Giants announced that he was not starting and not talking.
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Barry Bonds ended his latest home run drought and showed he might be finding his stroke again. Bonds hit his 747th homer and moved within eight of Hank Aaron's career record with a two-run shot during the Giants' 4-3 win over Toronto on Monday night, just the second home run since May 8 for the slugger and his first this month.
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The Mitchell Report threw a huge changeup to casual fans for whom the steroid era simply meant Barry Bonds. Now they had a big-time pitcher to go along with a home run slugger.
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Barry Bonds was told by the San Francisco Giants that he wonât play for them in 2008, he said on his Web site.
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Baseball&#39;s 700 Club became a trinity of revered sluggers Friday night when Barry Bonds hit an opposite-field home run through a light breeze, a swirl of steroid rumors and the thunderous cheers of an adoring home crowd.
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San Francisco Giants slugger  Barry Bonds, who is seeking to set the all-time home run record  in the next season or two, had minor knee surgery on Monday,  the team has announced.
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Barry Bonds notched his 728th career   home run as the San Francisco Giants edged the Chicago Cubs 4-2   at Wrigley Field on Saturday.
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With Barry Bonds sitting out, this derby was dry &#151; and Vladimir Guerrero was San Francisco's home run king for a day. The Los Angeles Angels slugger won the Home Run Derby on Monday night, hitting 17 homers and beating Toronto's Alex Rios 3-2 in the final round of the All-Star competition.
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Barry Bonds decided against taking a day off and was in the lineup Saturday against the Atlanta Braves. The Giants slugger often skips day games that follow night games, and he originally was scheduled to sit out Saturday.
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SCOTTSDALE, Arizona  - Barry Bonds took to the field on Tuesday for the first time this season, brushing aside the steroids scandal that has dogged him as he pursues baseball's all-time career home run record.
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Barry Bonds rested Sunday, staying out of the starting lineup in the San Francisco Giants' series finale against the San Diego Padres.
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The Sporting News - Barry Bonds is gone, but he continues to bring down the San Francisco Giants.
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MILWAUKEE, United States : Barry Bonds banged out three hits, but failed to join Major League Baseball&#39;s exclusive 700 home run club as the San Francisco Giants wrapped up a series against the Brewers.