{"id":10919,"date":"2016-03-18T01:00:44","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T06:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/?p=10919"},"modified":"2016-03-18T01:09:04","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T06:09:04","slug":"barry-lamar-bonds-is-elected-to-and-joins-the-bay-area-sports-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/?p=10919","title":{"rendered":"BARRY LAMAR BONDS IS ELECTED TO, AND JOINS, THE BAY AREA SPORTS HALL OF FAME"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"bb-hof\"\"barry-bonds-edit-1\"\"barry-bonds-hitting-coach-2\"\"bb-business\"\"barry-bonds-family-foundation-blog\"SAN FRANCISCO — Though his last home run came in 2007, Barry Bonds keeps tabs on modern celebrations. So when the former Giants star walked into a hotel ballroom Monday night to pose next to his bronze plaque, Bonds kept with the times:<\/strong><\/p>\n

He whipped out his cell phone and took a selfie.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Why not? That’s the way of the new world, right?” Bonds joked.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Other than it taking several tries to get the focus just right, the seven-time MVP had a smooth night at the Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame. Bonds’ induction class included his former manager, Dusty Baker, as well as Olympic skier Jonny Moseley, golf champion Roger Maltbie and the late Warriors owner, Franklin Mieuli.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bonds, looking sleek now that he’s an avid cyclist, had no desire to talk about what his Bay Area honor might mean for that other Hall of Fame — the one in Cooperstown. The all-time home run leader has never come close to induction there because voters have avoided any player under the cloud of steroids.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Asked about being omitted from the Baseball Hall of Fame, Bonds smiled.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“If I sat up here and I talked about it, it’s me against … how many of you guys in here?” At this point, Bonds scanned all the notebooks, microphones and TV cameras surrounding him.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“So the story can come out every way it can. See, I learned that lesson about staying out of those conversations and enjoying what’s in front of me.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Instead, the 14-time All-Star focused on an induction that cemented his place as a Bay Area sports family. Barry said his father, Bobby Bonds — also a former Giants All-Star outfielder — would have been “elated.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

“I try to explain to people: My family — counting Willie (Mays) as my godfather because we’ve always considered Willie family — we’ve been entertaining the Bay Area since 1958,” he said. “My father came along to entertain it, and I came back to entertain.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Moseley, the youngest of the crowd by far — he was born in 1975 — was still old enough to look back at a lasting legacy. He grew up in Tiburon and won a gold medal in the men’s mogul at the 1998 Olympic Games in Nagano, Japan.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In doing so, Moseley used his signature move — the 360 mute-grab — a trick he borrowed from the snowboarding crowd. Though Moseley met with some resistance with some of his flash, that trick and others like it have become commonplace among mogul skiers.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“I do feel like I did leave my mark,” Moseley said. “I kind of hung it out there. … That’s what I get credit for, and I’ll take it.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

THE MYBOYSAY NATIONS BASEBALL HALL OF FAME ENTHUSIASTS WOULD LIKE TO CONGRATULATE THE GREATEST BASEBALL PLAYER OF ALL TIME, MR. BARRY LAMAR BONDS, ON HIS ELECTION TO THE BAY AREA SPORTS HALL OF FAME.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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