Bonds MVP Award Provides Sparkle in Tainted Season
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San Francisco Giants slugger Barry  Bonds captured a record seventh MVP award Monday, providing a  sparkling finish to a season tainted by doping allegations.
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NEW YORK : San Francisco&#39;s Barry Bonds, whose Major League Baseball feats have been dogged by unproven steroid suspicions, became the oldest player to win the National League Most Valuable Player award.
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San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds, who hit .362, set a record with 232 walks and topped 700 career homers, was named 2004 player of the year by The Sporting News.
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With all that is swirling around him, Barry Bonds seems to find true serenity only in the few square feet of the batterâs box.
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Barry Bonds failed to lift the  San Francisco Giants to victory against title rivals the Los  Angeles Dodgers Sunday, although he did cap a revitalization of  his reputation in his last home game of the regular season.
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This should be a joyous, fulfilling time for Barry Bonds but instead, the San Francisco slugger is slumping on a last place team.
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NEW YORK (Sports Network) - Another record-setting season  has led San Francisco leftfielder Barry Bonds to his fourth  straight and unprecedented seventh overall National League Most  Valuable Player Award.
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Barry Bonds won his record seventh NL MVP award in a walk.
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Barry Bonds set a record Saturday night that no one cared to see. For the 199th time this season, he took ball four.
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THERE WILL be an asterisk next to Barry Bonds&#39; home-run records. It may not appear in Major League Baseball&#39;s official archives, but it will be ingrained in the public mind.
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Too bad for Mike Matheny the ballots for National League MVP were cast before the start of the playoffs. With the Cardinals&#39; Big Three nearly invisible for last night&#39;s Game 2
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Barry Bonds broke his major league record for walks in a season and rookie Noah Lowry allowed four hits in seven innings plus last night in the San Francisco Giants
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Barry Bonds is fully aware that No. 700 will further his status, but the San Francisco Giants' improbable success is what validates him as a superstar.
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Exhibit A: Sometime over the next few days, a San Francisco athlete will break baseball's most treasured record. Despite his achievement of hitting more home runs than anyone else in Major League Baseball, Barry Bonds will be greeted with rage, ridicule and vast amounts of spit -- because many pe...
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Barry Bonds earned the appreciation of his manager by staying in the lineup. He earned the appreciation of his teammates, too, for keeping the San Francisco Giants in playoff contention.
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Barry Bonds gave his home fans what they had been waiting nearly a month to see: the historic shot that finally moved him past the Babe.
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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.