Posted at 4:14 p.m., Wednesday, August 8, 2007
Baseball: Pirates to salute Bonds with tribute Monday
Associated Press
PITTSBURGH — Barry Bonds, baseball's new home run record-holder after hitting his 756th career homer last night, will be honored with a video tribute by the Pittsburgh Pirates on Monday.Bonds was a two-time National League MVP with the Pirates, leading them to the NL playoffs three times while playing his first seven major league seasons with them from 1986-92. He left after winning a second MVP award in 1992 to sign with the San Francisco Giants as a free agent.
The video tribute will be shown between games of a makeup doubleheader necessitated when the Giants and Pirates were rained out April 14 and 15 in PNC Park, fo his only game in Pittsburgh this season, Bonds homered twice April 13.
Bonds hit 176 of his 756 homers while with Pittsburgh, where he spent his first four seasons mostly as a leadoff hitter. He didn't hit more than 25 homers with the Pirates until dropping to No. 3 in the order in 1990, when he hit .301 with 33 homers, 104 RBIs and stole 52 bases. He hit 25 homers in 1991 and 34 in 1992.
Bonds has 21 career homers in 95 games against the Pirates, including seven homers in 14 games in PNC Park.
