Barry Bonds

CTL-E-5986 · Person · other · 1964–present

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Combined Graph record U-07222 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-5986.

Barry Bonds, born Barry Lamar Bonds on 24 July 1964 in Riverside, California, is a Black American former left fielder who holds the most contested records in baseball. The son of outfielder Bobby Bonds and the godson of Willie Mays, he was drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1985 and debuted on 30 May 1986, winning National League MVP awards in 1990 and 1992 before signing with the San Francisco Giants. Over 22 seasons he set the career home run record with 762, the single-season record with 73 in 2001, and the career walks record with 2,558, while remaining the only player with 500 home runs and 500 stolen bases. He won a record seven MVP awards, fourteen All-Star selections, eight Gold Gloves and twelve Silver Sluggers, and finished with a .298 average and 2,935 hits. Pittsburgh inducted him into its team Hall of Fame in 2024. One adjudicated legal fact is carried in this record: his 2011 obstruction-of-justice conviction was overturned on appeal in 2015.

The record

• Also known as: Barry Lamar Bonds

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Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Census Intake Wave 4 — 747 Program, Wave 10; 40-record packet). Gate A (2026-10-16): no Barry Bonds entity in the live graph at 3,683 entities (exact / normalized / alias + token containment); ID CTL-E-5986 assigned at assembly. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Tier 3 — Famous Birthdays ABSENT census, readiness rank 1127 (Baseball Players list). The census supplied the NAME ONLY; no fact in this record is sourced to it (CTL-GOV-004). SCOPE GATE: PASS — Black American left fielder; son of former major leaguer Bobby Bonds and godson of Willie Mays (Encyclopaedia Britannica; CNN Fast Facts). Adjudicated legal fact (one neutral line): his 2011 obstruction-of-justice conviction was overturned on appeal in 2015; the BALCO perjury (false-statement) charges on which the jury deadlocked were dropped by the government in 2011 (ESPN/AP, 2015). No claim of steroid use is asserted as adjudicated fact in this record. Vital status: LIVING — subject of a September 2026 Arizona State Hall of Fame honor announcement with a February induction ahead (Yardbarker, 11 September 2026). STATISTICS (sourced, dated): Career (1986–2007): .298 average, 2,935 hits, 762 home runs (all-time record), 73 home runs in 2001 (single-season record), 1,996 RBIs, 514 stolen bases, 2,558 walks (all-time record); record seven NL MVP awards, 14 All-Star selections (Wikipedia; Britannica) — accessed 2026-10-16. MEDIA: photo HELD (candidate: Wikimedia Commons photography of Bonds with San Francisco, including the 2015 portrait carried on his reference pages; no file page read at file-page level — CTL-PHOTO-001; CTL-created graphic is the standing alternative); chart FILLED (charts/chart-ctl-e-5986-barry-bonds.svg); video HELD (Shorts Link Map checked — no matching CTL Short); audio HELD (no rights basis). MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = N/A (Person records carry no map slot under the media-layer rule; maps attach to places and institutions.) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created SVG (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record's sourced facts) | video = HELD (No matching-entity CTL Short in the Shorts Link Map catalog (checked by name and variants), and no official/em) | audio = HELD (No CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio at staging; the subject's own recordings/appearances are )

Sources

• Encyclopaedia Britannica, "Barry Bonds" — born 24 July 1964, Riverside, California; broke the career home run record (762) and the single-season record (73 in 2001); son of Bobby Bonds, godson of Willie Mays; drafted by Pittsburgh in 1985 and joined the Pirates in 1986; a record seven MVP awards and 688 intentional walks — https://www.britannica.com/biography/Barry-Bonds (primary source · build store)
• ESPN (Associated Press), "Department of Justice drops Barry Bonds prosecution" (22 July 2015) — federal prosecutors dropped the case after the Ninth Circuit overturned Bonds' 2011 obstruction-of-justice conviction in April 2015 and barred retrial; the jury had deadlocked on the false-statement counts, which the government dismissed in August 2011 — https://www.espn.ph/mlb/story/_/id/13295151/barry-bonds-criminal-prosecution-formally-dropped-department-justice-conviction (build store)
• Wikipedia, "Barry Bonds" — born 24 July 1964, Riverside, California; Pittsburgh Pirates (1986–1992) and San Francisco Giants (1993–2007); career .298 average, 2,935 hits, 762 home runs, 1,996 RBIs, 514 stolen bases, 2,558 walks; 7× NL MVP and 14× All-Star — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Bonds (build store)
• Yardbarker, "Barry Bonds Will Add Another Hall of Fame Honor to Arizona State Baseball's Rich Legacy" (11 September 2026) — Bonds, an Arizona State star before Pittsburgh drafted him sixth overall in 1985, to be honored by Arizona State with a February induction; restates 762 home runs, 2,935 hits, 1,996 RBIs and 514 stolen bases — https://www.yardbarker.com/mlb/articles/barry_bonds_will_add_another_hall_of_fame_honor_to_arizona_state_baseballs_rich_legacy/s1_17626_44292999 (build store)

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