AP’s San Francisco The CEO of the San Francisco Giants announced Thursday that a statue of Barry Bonds, who set baseball’s lifetime home run record, will be placed outside the team’s stadium.
In response to a radio interview question concerning a statue for Bonds, Giants President and CEO Larry Baer stated that it was being considered. However, Baer had no idea when that might occur.
“Barry deserves a statue, and I think that should be the next step,” Baer stated when appearing on San Francisco’s 95.7 The Game. We are unable to pinpoint the precise time, date, and location. It will arrive. It’s coming, that’s all I can say.
Bonds, who hit 586 of his 762 home runs while with the Giants from 1993 to 2007, spent the final 15 of his 22 major league seasons with San Francisco. In a home game against Washington’s Mike Bacsik on August 7, 2007, he blasted his record-breaking 756th home run to surpass Hank Aaron, who had previously established the single-season MLB record with 73 home runs in 2001.
Currently, there are five statues outside Oracle Park: Orlando Cepeda, Juan Marichal, Gaylord Perry, Willie Mays, and Willie McCovey, all of whom are Hall of Famers. In 2018, the Giants retired Bond’s No. 25 jersey.
Bonds, a 14-time All-Star and seven-time MVP, is not inducted into the Hall of Fame. During his ten years on the Baseball Writers Association of America’s Hall of Fame ballot, he fell short of the 75% mark, primarily due to the steroids accusations that plagued him in his latter years with the Giants. Although the committee may reevaluate Bonds’ status, the Contemporary Player Committee also decided against electing him in 2022.
