SAN FRANCISCO — Barry Bonds arrived at AT&T Park on Friday and went right to the batting cage. The visitors' batting cage. Then he went to the dugout, sat down and answered questions from a swarm of reporters. The visitors' dugout. Then it was off to the clubhouse. Oh, the AT&T Park clubhouse. The stories it could tell about Barry Bonds. Well, not this one. He was across the stadium. You know, with the visitors. Bonds has done a lot of things at AT&T Park in his life — including hitting 160 homers; 35 of which splashed into McCovey Cove — but he'd never done any of this. He was, for the first time, wearing the opposing team's uniform. [ Join a Yahoo Daily Fantasy Baseball contest now ] The return of Bonds, the home-run king, PED poster child and controversy magnet who had surprisingly taken a job as the Miami Marlins hitting coach, figured to be a circus. Because he's Barry Bonds and most everything involving him has the potential be a circus. But this new Barry Bonds, the one who wants to change his image, get back in baseball's good graces and maybe, hopefully one day get into the Hall of Fame, well he wasn't trying to play ring master. "I take my job serious,"...
Barry Bonds soaks up the love in return to S.F., but puts Marlins first
Published April 22, 2016 at 11:40 PM
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