Bobby Lee Bonds Jr. (born March 7, 1970) is an American former minor-league baseball player. He is the son of former baseball player
Bobby Bonds
Bobby Lee Bonds (March 15, 1946 – August 23, 2003) was an American right fielder in Major League Baseball from to , primarily with the San Francisco Giants. Noted for his outstanding combination of power hitting and speed, he was the first ...
and the younger brother of
Barry Bonds
Barry Lamar Bonds (born July 24, 1964) 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 f ...
and Ricky Bonds. After high school, he went to
Cañada College to play baseball. He was drafted in the 1992 June Amateur Draft.
Baseball career
Bonds moved up from Rookie League to Short Season A ball during his first year in professional baseball. In 1993, he moved up to Single A to play with the Waterloo Diamonds. In 1994, during one of the best seasons of his career, Bonds was promoted from A ball straight to AAA. He began the 1995 season in Advanced A and was traded to the
San Francisco Giants
The San Francisco Giants are an American professional baseball team based in San Francisco, California. The Giants compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) West division. Founded in 1883 as the New Y ...
organization, the club that Barry Bonds was on at the time. In 1998, Bobby started with the independent
Sonoma County Crushers, then played for the Giants AA and AAA teams. Bonds spent the rest of his baseball career (1999–2002) with independent minor league teams.
On his brother's steroid case
In a 2007, interview with the Star-Ledger, Bonds said that he doesn't know whether Barry used steroids and he said that Barry would never have admitted using them to him anyway. Bonds also criticized
Hank Aaron
Henry Louis Aaron (February 5, 1934 – January 22, 2021), nicknamed "Hammer" or "Hammerin' Hank", was an American professional baseball right fielder who played 23 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), from 1954 through 1976. One of the gre ...
, who had announced that he would not be present when Barry hit numbers 755 and 756.
References
External links
His Brother's Big Footsteps - SI VaultBonds brothers in same outfield - Toledo BladeBonds' brother bothered by baseball snub - ESPNBonds’ brother upset with Aaron over snub - MSNBCDiary of A Sports Writer
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1970 births
Living people
African-American baseball players
Baseball players from California
Cañada Colts baseball players
21st-century African-American sportspeople
20th-century African-American sportspeople
Arizona League Padres players
Fresno Grizzlies players
Las Vegas Stars (baseball) players
Nashua Pride players
Newark Bears players
Phoenix Firebirds players
Rancho Cucamonga Quakes players
San Jose Giants players
Shreveport Captains players
Somerset Patriots players
Sonoma County Crushers players
Spokane Indians players
Springfield Sultans players
Visalia Oaks players
Waterloo Diamonds players