CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
April 24, 2013 | By Joseph Serna
A commemorative plaque honoring Barry Bonds' record-breaking 756 th home run hanging at the San Francisco Giants' AT&T Park has vanished. CBS and other Bay Area media affiliates are reporting the plaque vanished sometime in the last few days. Team and stadium officials are reviewing stadium security video to try and find when it was taken and by whom, a San Francisco police official said. The team has opted to handle the issue internally and has not asked for police assistance, officials said.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
April 24, 2013 | By Joseph Serna
Things vanish and are replaced at the San Francisco Giants' AT&T Park all the time, so a lost Barry Bonds commemorative plaque shouldn't be a big deal, a team spokeswoman said Wednesday. “It's a stadium with 41,000 people, things disappear from the ballpark and we replace them,” said Giants spokeswoman Staci Slaughter. “It's a wooden, painted sign.” The team said it will replace the sign. PHOTOS: Barry Bonds through the years Slaughter and Giants officials are in the midst of a busy week.
BUSINESS
February 16, 2013 | By Lauren Beale, Los Angeles Times
Perhaps hoping to hit a home run of a different sort, former baseball outfielder Barry Bonds has put his Italian-inspired estate in Beverly Park up for sale at $25 million. Designed to function both as a place to host large-scale events and as a family home, the 17,100-square-foot villa sits beside a circular motor court centered on a multi-tiered fountain. The 1.85 acres of grounds include an outdoor kitchen, a swimming pool with a cabana, a 2,100-square-foot sports court, an olive grove, a lawn and a rose garden.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
February 14, 2013 | By Maura Dolan, Los Angeles Times
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court wrestled Wednesday with whether to overturn slugger Barry Bonds' felony conviction for obstruction of justice. The three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals weighed whether Bonds broke the law by being evasive in a 52-word answer he gave a federal grand jury in 2003. The grand jury was investigating illegal distribution of performance-enhancing drugs. Bonds was asked in the grand jury session whether his personal trainer had ever given him a substance that required a syringe to inject.
SPORTS
January 10, 2013 | By Houston Mitchell
Al Kaline, Dennis Eckersley and Mike Schmidt have a few things in common. One, they are all members of baseball's Hall of Fame. Two, they are all glad no one was elected to join them this year. “I'm kind of glad that nobody got in this year,” former Detroit Tigers outfielder Kaline told the Detroit Free Press . “I feel honored to be in the Hall of Fame. And I would've felt a little uneasy sitting up there on the stage, listening to some of these new guys talk about how great they were.” All-time home run leader Barry Bonds received just 36.2% of the vote and pitcher Roger Clemens 37.6% in results announced Wednesday.
SPORTS
January 9, 2013 | By Bill Shaikin
PARADISE VALLEY, Ariz. -- Commissioner Bud Selig dismissed as "ridiculous" the concept that the stature of the Hall of Fame or Major League Baseball has been damaged by this year's Hall of Fame vote, in which no players were elected. Selig called induction into the Hall of Fame "the greatest honor a player can get" and said he saw no need to change the voting system, conducted by the Baseball Writers' Assn. of America at the direction of the Hall of Fame. Selig, speaking at the team owners' meetings, started his comments by answering the question of whether he was unhappy at Wednesday's Hall of Fame shutout.