Barry Bonds, the controversial former San Francisco Giants player and MLB home run record-holder, will soon have a statue erected outside Oracle Park. Giants CEO Larry Baer confirmed during a radio interview that the plans for the statue are in progress, though specific details are still forthcoming. Bonds, who holds the single-season and career home run records, played the final 15 years of his career with the Giants from 1993 to 2007, hitting 586 homers with the team. Despite his achievements, he remains outside of the Hall of Fame due to past steroid allegations.
Barry is certainly deserving of a statue, and I would say should be next up. We don't have the exact location and the exact date and the exact timing. ... It's coming. All I can say is it's coming.
Bonds played for San Francisco the last 15 of his 22 big league seasons, hitting 586 of his 762 homers while with the Giants from 1993-2007.
He set the single-season MLB record with 73 homers in 2001, and hit his record-breaking 756th homer to pass Hank Aaron in a home game off Washington's Mike Bacsik on Aug. 7, 2007.
Though Bonds is not in the Hall of Fame due to steroids allegations, the committee could reconsider Bonds' status.
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