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Bonds, Barry Lamar - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | Riverside, Calif. Bonds grew up surrounded by baseball; his father, Bobby Bonds, was a San Francisco Giants outfielder (1968-74), and the great Willie Mays was his godfather. |
| | Bonds also shattered two of Babe Ruth 's long-standing records—the 81-year-old slugging record (Ruth's was.847; Bonds'.863) and the 78-year-old record for walks in a season (Ruth had 170, Bonds 177) and won his fourth MVP, a record until he was again the MVP in 2002 and 2003. |
| | Bonds ranks second on the career home-runs list, having reached the 700-homer mark in 2004 after 13 consecutive 30-home-run seasons (and breaking Jimmie Foxx 's record of 12 seasons) and passing Ruth's 714 mark in 2006. |
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