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Mays's 156.2 Wins Above Replacement (WAR) ranks fifth all-time, and third among position players (trailing Barry Bonds' 162.8 and Ruth's 162.1). [225] He led NL position players in WAR for 10 seasons, and led the league in on-base plus slugging (OPS) five times, ranking 26th all time with a .941 mark. [ 40 ]
If Barry Bonds is the brilliant prodigy of the '90s and the '00s, then he learned the intimacies of the game from Mays. If Robinson was a public Black leader, then Willie privately mentored ...
Barry Lamar Bonds (born July 24, 1964) [1] is an American former professional baseball left fielder who played 22 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). Bonds was a member of the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1986 to 1992 and the San Francisco Giants from 1993 to 2007. [2] He is considered to be one of the greatest baseball players of all time. [3 ...
San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds cries at the podium near the pitching mound with his godfather, Willie Mays, during a post-game ceremony after Bonds hit his 71st and 72nd home runs of the ...
#SayHey" — Former hitter and Mays' godson Barry Bonds. ___ “His incredible achievements and statistics do not begin to describe the awe that came with watching Willie Mays dominate the game in ...
If Mays' godson, Barry Bonds, were in the Hall, he'd be a pretty easy choice as the game's greatest living Hall of Famer, but PED-related controversy continues to keep him out. Here are a few other candidates for this unofficial but compelling honor: Rickey Henderson
Then, Willie Mays' godson, Barry Bonds, joined the 600 homer club on August 9, 2002, as a member of the Giants, hitting a homer off of Pittsburgh Pirates' pitcher Kip Wells. [5] Bonds made it into the club the season after he set the single-season homer record in all organized baseball, when he hit 73 homers in 2001.
The San Francisco Giants officially retired Barry Bonds No. 25 during a ceremony at AT&T Park.