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Barry Bonds has emerged, statistically, as the most feared hitter since Babe Ruth. Bonds, winner of a record six MVP awards, holds the single-season record for home-runs, slugging percentage, on-base percentage, and walks, and is the only player ever to have hit 500 home-runs and stolen 500 bases. His statistical performance is beyond reproach, but his public image remains controversial, and recent allegations of steroid use have cast a shadow over his unprecedented accomplishments. This timely book strips away the hype and takes an objective look and Bonds' life and career. It has been said that hitting a baseball is the hardest thing to do in professional sports. Baseball's All-Time Greatest Hitters presents biographies on Greenwood's selection for the 12 best hitters in Major League history, written by some of today's best baseball authors. These books present straightforward stories in accessible language for the high school researcher and the general reader alike. Each volume includes a timeline, bibliography, and index. In addition, each volume includes a "Making of a Legend" chapter that analyses the evolution of the player's fame and (in some cases) infamy. ... Read more

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Barry is Da Kang of Baseball
I don't care what nobody says about Barry Bonds I'll always be cool with the Man,because he is a 5 tool player who can Hit,run,play field,Hit for Power&create a winning situation for his team. Barry Bonds is the Best Hitter.

A Man of Integrity and Power
The hitting prowess of Barry Bonds is probably the greatest in the history of baseball. He is steadily but surely becoming a legend in his own time. This is an interesting and absorbing book. It has fascinated me and pinnacled my interest in this sports super star.

Best of the Best
Barry Bonds is one of the best hitters in the game. His records are a testament to that. A great book on a great man and player. There are more goals and records out there to break and he's the man to do it!

One of the Greatest Hitters in Depth
This is an in-depth look at Barry Bonds who is one of the greatest hitters of the game of baseball. The statistics are there in the record book but what is behind those numbers? This book tries to be objective on this subject. Fame and Barry Bonds' place in the history of baseball is a timely issue and this book is worth reading.

An intriguing coverage
Baseball star Barry Bonds was one of the sport's greatest hitters, and John Bloom's biographical sketch BARRY BONDS joins others in the `Greatest Hitters' series presenting a review of his life and talents. Chapters detail his statistical performance, his controversial public image, and the accusations of steroid use which cloud his reputation today. An intriguing coverage.
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Barry Bonds: Baseball Superman is the biography of the game's first four-time Most Valuable Player. In 2001, Bonds broke the greatest record in sports, the all-time single-season home run record held over the years by Babe Ruth, Roger Maris and Mark McGwire, and arguably had the greatest season in baseball history. There is no doubt that for most fans, Barry Bonds is a man of mystery. Author Steven Travers documents the superstar's 2001 campaign as Bonds defied the very bounds of conventional logic and perfected the art of long-ball hitting. Travers also describes Bonds's childhood in Riverside, California, the hometown of his father, Bobby; his successful high school career in the Bay Area, and his All-American career at Arizona State. ... Read more

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EXCELLENT
This one is interesting to read now that we know more about Bonds. It holds up well and is very well written. I loved it!

NOT what I expected
I am one of the few Barry Bonds fans around, so when I decided to find a book on him, I was disappointed to find that there were surprisingly few.Noticing that "Barry Bonds: Baseball's Superman" was purported to be in-depth, not just another glossy biography and had good reviews on Amazon.com, I decided to make the purchase.Now, after reading it and piecing a few things together, I must say that I am thoroughly let-down.A few observations:

1) The cover and title are cheesy.I know that the book's author may not have had any say in this, but using "Baseball's Superman" as a title makes it sound like a cover story for Sports Illustrated for Kids.

2) The book is not written well.It is very choppy and author Steven Travers has a tendency to ramble off-topic for pages on end.

3) Not that I'm some avatar of morality, but what's the deal with all the sexual references?[...]

4) There are contradictions sprinkled throughout the book.For instance, on page 36, Travers quotes Bonds as saying: "My father and I were never really close when I was growing up."Then, just five pages later, he quotes Bonds as saying: "My father and I have always been very close."Sure, Bonds is the one contradicting himself, but Travers never points this out, just one example of the multiple occasions where I almost laughed out loud at the book's inconsistencies.

5) How many times are we to hear that Travers played pro ball?Big deal, you struck out 15 guys in a minor league game. There are minor-leaguers who have hit 60 homers, thrown perfect games, etc. and they are nobodies.I do not mean this as a slight, just a point that we do not need to hear incessantly about things such as "Stan Javier played with me" or how you sat in Randy Johnson's recliner, or how an interview subject calls you "Trav."The book is about Barry Bonds, not Steven Travers.

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The bottom line is that Travers squandered a golden opportunity.Rolling the dice early in 2001 that Bonds would break the home run record, getting permission to do a book, and then seeing him acutally do it is akin to hitting the lottery for a sports journalist.Unfortunately, the finished product seems hastily thrown together, poorly edited, and foolishly out-of-bounds in many areas.Too often we hear about sexual hijinks that have nothing to do with Bonds, and we also get Travers's opinions on a multitude of subjects that I don't care to know his thoughts on.The fact that I'd never even heard of this book should have been enough of a red flag, but it wasn't, and therefore I got what I deserved.This book isn't terrible, but it also is not good, and therefore I would not recommend it.Fans of Barry Bonds should just wait until a comprehensive biography comes out on him when his playing days are over.

Steven Travers writes with a unique insight
With the multitude of books written regarding the sport of baseball, Steven Travers writes with a unique insight into not only the sport, but the day to day lives of Bonds and his peers.As a former professional baseball player, Travers touches on the subject matter with a unique insight and perspective.Additionally, Travers attended and graduated from USC during the time Bonds played at Arizona State (Pac-10).As such, Travers is not only a writer, but a fan.Travers not only documents Bond's achievement of becoming baseball's all-time single season homerun champion, but he touches on Bond's trials and tribulations with his peers and the media.Ultimately, the reader soon realizes that Travers was able to do what many has tried and failed at; that is, he was able to garner the respect and support of Bonds in the ability to tell his amazing story to the whole world.As a former Pac-10 pitcher at USC who battled Bonds on many occasions, I found Traver's insight very refreshing and commendable.I found the book a very easy read that kept me entertained throughout.
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Steven Travers on Barry Bonds
I have lived overseas for many years but was an avid Giants fan in the 60's & 70's. Steven Travers' book on Barry Bonds was a welcome gift. I had read various news articles about the "controversial" Bonds and feel that Travers' book puts things right. I especially enjoyed the insights into the life styles of high powered sports figures. The build-up to Bonds' record setting home run season was handled in an excellent manner. This book is a great read for any baseball fan.

The Best of Bonds
This insightful, well-written book is a must-read for the sports fan interested in a personal, inside view of the multi-faceted personality of the immensely talented Barry Bonds.

Bonds has provided few people with the access and insight he provided Steve Travers, the author.History will prove it to be the definitive work on one of baseball's greatest players.

Frank McCormack
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Title: Without Bonds, the West is an open range.(Baseball)(Barry Bonds)
Author: Ken Rosenthal
Publication: The Sporting News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 8, 2005
Publisher: Sporting News Publishing Co.
Volume: 229Issue: 14Page: 54(2)

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great book
This is a great book for anyone who likes baseball. It tell all about Barry Bonds one of the greates baseball players of all time. trust me i am one of his biggest fans and this is a good book about his life. ... Read more

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Title: Bonds, rey de las Mayores.(Barry Bonds, jugador de béisbol)(TT: Bonds king of the major leagues.)(TA: Barry Bonds, baseball player)(Artículo Breve)
Publication: Semana (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 4, 2002
Publisher: Spanish Publications, Inc.
Volume: 8Issue: 462Page: 24

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The complete inside story of the shocking steroids scandal that turned the sports world upside down

For years, in the shadowy reaches of the world of sport, there were rumors that some of our nation’s greatest athletes were using steroids, human growth hormone, and other drugs to run faster, jump higher, and hit harder. But as track stars like Marion Jones blazed their way to Olympic medals and sluggers such as Mark McGwire brought fans back to baseball with stratospheric home runs, sports officials, the media, and fans looked past the rumors and cheered on the stars to ever-higher levels of performance. Then, in December 2004, after more than fifteen months of relentless reporting, San Francisco Chronicle reporters Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams broke the story of the Bay Area Lab Co-operative, a tiny nutritional supplement company that according to sworn testimony was supplying elite athletes, including baseball MVP Jason Giambi, with banned drugs. The stories, exposing rampant cheating at the highest levels of athletics, shocked the nation as sports heroes were brought low and their records were tainted. The exposes led to Congressional hearings on baseball’s drug problems, and a revived effort to purge the U.S. Olympic movement of drug cheats.

Now, in Game of Shadows, Fainaru-Wada and Williams tell the complete story of BALCO and the investigation that has shaken the foundations of the sporting world. They reveal how an obscure, self-proclaimed nutritionist, Victor Conte, became a steroid svengali to multi-millionaire athletes desperate for a competitive edge, and how he created superstars with his potent cocktails of miracle drugs. They expose the international web of coaches and trainers who funneled athletes to BALCO, and how the drug cheats stayed a step ahead of the testing agencies and the law. They detail how an aggressive IRS investigator doggedly gathered evidence until Conte and his co-conspirators were brought to justice. And at the center of the story is the biggest star of them all, Barry Bonds, the muscle-bound MVP outfielder of the San Francisco Giants whose suspicious late-career renaissance has him threatening Hank Aaron’s all-time home run record.

Shocking, revelatory, and page-turning, Game of Shadows casts light into the shadows of American sport to reveal the dark truths at the heart of the game today. ... Read more

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The Authority in the topic of steroids
I am a big baseball fan so i had to read this book and , altough, it is a sad thing to find out how huge is this problem, i am grateful that those who have lied and hide this problem have been prosecuted.This book is a great account of the problems of drugs in sports.So far, everything that the authors have said in this book have been proven true.This book is a no non-sense approach to the story with the authors putting all the cards on the table and not holding back.I think their approach to the subject is fantastic and the fact that they have researched and documented all their information is a testimony to that.Great book!!

BALCO + BARRY = Baseball's Beguiled Bondage
There is no way to make a positive case for anabolic steroids or HGH in any sport.The story of BALCO and the involvement of one of the biggest names in sports makes for an interesting read Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO, and the Steroids Scandal that Rocked Professional Sportsalbeit one of the darkest sides of professional sports.

Hidden behind a "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?" back-drop, the book names people who became contenders by buying into the back street sales of steroids in order to build strength, enhance musculature, elongate careers and cheat their way into the record books with the excuse that they were better than other players but just needed that edge to be best, as though it was their divine right! Gone were the days of Willie Mays, Roger Maris, Hank Aaron and Mickey Mantle, those who made and broke records by sheer talent and will.The days of steroids were now foisted upon an unsuspecting public via Victor Conte, a self-made, self-serving and self-proclaimed nutritionist who became a "cocktail" mixer to the super stars of sports.Throw into that mix the world of Major League Baseball, who, along with its Commissioners, owners, managers, trainers and pumped up stars, turned a deaf ear and a blind eye to all that was happening around them.Together, they've turned a wonderful, healthy and beautiful sport that was America's Favorite Pastime into a debacle of muscle-bound "terminators" whose job it is to hit the long ball and keep people coming to fields and stadiums where they can witness the side-show of freaks which once was, the heart of American sports.

Probably as close as we'll get to any admission of wrongdoing
An enjoyable book that not only exposes the drug use of Bonds, but many other people that, in some cases like Marion Jones, have finally been nabbed after years of denials. It's also a good insight into the minds of top athletes - the message here is 'win at any cost'.

A small item: the authors are quite keen to tell how great they were/their paper was in breaking the stories, which is fine and deserved, but they are pretty quick in saying how they could not have broken these stories in 1998 because if they did they would have been ostracised from the clubhouses, etc. Hindsight is 20-20, but it's clear the media were not ready to ask tough questions in the "summer of love" period, even if they wondered how guys like McGwire and Sosa got so big so quickly.

Game of Shadows
Game of Shadows is a riveting account of drug abuse within the sports industry.Once I started reading it I couldn't put it down.Very relevant today with the ongoing congressional investigations.An easy weekend read.

Noteworthy scoop and important effort to push fact-facing
By now even people that don't follow baseball have some concept of what BALCO was.BALCO was the scandal that made us "believe our lying eyes" and realize that steroids are rampant in sports.It always amazes me to hear people blather about weight training as if it is some recent invention and is the source of the spectacular musculatures of modern athletes.Sorry kids, men have had the same builds for centuries and there have been ways to build them to a certain extent for centuries.Steroids is the difference, you see in the modern athlete.

The real scoop that these journalists got was the leaked grand jury testimony with the details of the BALCO doping.Also the significant revelations from Bell (Bonds's girlfriend)They shared it in newspaper articles and by writing this book helped hold the truth to our faces and to the tacit facilitators in sports management.

The book is a lot better than the average Woodward-mill opus in scholarship and craft.But it has the common failing of this kind of close after the event history in only sharing what is public (and not all of that) and what special scoops the authors got.Still...the important thing was the scoop.So kudos.

As an aside, I don't agree with these reporters that there is any "reporter sheild" for confidential sources.Courts have long held that reporters have a first amendment right to publish whatever secret they want.But that if they have knowledge of a crime, they must testify in court.Just because you are a reputable reporter does not mean your First Amendment rights are any better than the average shmuck.Actually we all have great first amendment rights.You can publish whatever you want.Sheild laws don't protect the first amendment.They protect criminals. ... Read more

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Relates the baseball career of this San Francisco Giant who had been with the Pittsburgh Pirates and who was three times names the National League's Most Valuable player. ... Read more

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Just as players and coaches are hitting their stride at spring training, a new book, This Gracious Season (Winter Publications, March 2002), reminds us what a magical season 2001 was for the San Francisco Giants and their Future Hall-of-Fame slugger, Barry Bonds.

Josh Suchon, the Giants' beat writer for the Oakland Tribune, has a unique behind-closed-door access to Bonds and the team, which inspired him to chronicle his experiences of watching, listening and discussing Bonds' chase of the most hallowed record in all of sports -- the single season home run record. However this isn't just a book about home runs. It's about putting Bonds' home runs into context. What made them special as singular moments in time. What they did to fuel the anticipation of more home runs. And how, as a whole, they made 2001 one gracious season for Barry Lamar Bonds. ... Read more

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Editors, what were you thinking?
I am quite the Barry Bonds fan, so I looked very forward to reading This Gracious Season. Unfortunately the story was nearly impossible for me to focus on through all of the mis-punctuation, misuse of words, and failed attempts at lace. I think, that Josh Suchon, must have received, a royalty, from every, comma, used.
Yes, the story was a good one. But that has little to do with the author, being as this was a biography. I like that he threw in personal tidbits, but they were drowning in a sea of Josh Suchon's attempts at using a thesaurus, and showing off his ability to look up sports stats. One of my favorite movie lines (paraphrased) is applicable here: Sometimes more isn't better; it's just more.
Barry, I love you. Josh, stick to the papers.

Great for Baseball Fans
This book provides a fascinating glimpse into the behind-the-scenes world of major league baseball, its rivalries and intense contract negotiations.

It approaches the story as an insider's look at a somewhat unlovable sports figure and the greatest year in his career (the author is a Giants beat writer.) I learned a lot about Bonds, his respect for family and privacy and his feelings towards his teammates and fellow MLB players as well as his much-publicized, love-hate relationship with the media.

If you're a fan of the game or a student of the baseball industry, this book should be a must-read.

Pretty much a love letter to Barry
This book could have been great, showing the "real" Barry Bonds, the one who takes every advantage for himself at the expense of the great game and sometimes his own team.Instead, it is more or less a book written as Barry wanted it.The fact that the author admits he envisions the book on Barry's shelf is enough evidence that his goal was not to acurately tell the true story of the man and the season of 2001, but rather to tell a fictional story of Barry and furthers the fantasy of those blinded by their loyalty to the Giants that Barry is anything more than a good ball player who could care less about the game, his teammates, and the fans who pay his salary.

The many inconsistencies between the accounts in this book and the reality of the season give further evidence that this is a work of fiction.The authors deliberate smooching of Barry to gain favor and be "allowed" to speak to the man shows the real sham here.Read other accounts of the same events by multiple other writers and you will see how Barry-serving and lopsided this book is.

It's pretty much a fantasy.

Josh Suchon misses the show - some of it
In spite of his Hall of Fame ability, Barry Bonds has long had a reputation as an arrogant unfeeling individual who does not serve well as an ambassador for the game, in the same sense that McGwire, Sosa, Gwynn, and Ripken have done, and a book about him doesn't seem to attract any interest outside of Giant country.To coin a phrase made notorious by Barry himself, are baseball fans still missing the show?

This particular book is about author Josh Suchon's experience of Barry's record-breaking 2001 baseball season, which had the baseball world agog.And Suchon makes the mistake of allowing himself to become too close to his subject, even acknowledging that he envisions his book on Barry's bookshelf.But the book is not a "whitewash", as others have claimed.The title is based on the Shakespeare quotation set forth after the title page, and, in the present context, the word "gracious" is meant to describe Bonds's performance and not Barry himself.

Suchon doesn't deny Barry's shortcomings; he simply places them in the perspective of his other qualities such as his work ethic and his willingness to play in pain.

He also places Bonds's shortcomings in the perspective of the demands made on his time, the expectations held of him, the behavior of other ballplayers, and the context of the given situation.These are better derived from the book than described by me, but, to take one example, the infamous "Barry's corner" of the Giant clubhouse exists largely for therapeutic purposes.The $3,000 couch on which he lounges is a vibrating couch that heals his back, which was purchased by Barry, and not the team.

Beyond that, Suchon misses very little.Like Ishmael, he makes his presence known but wisely does not impose too much of himself in describing events as they unfold, knowing full well that the story in itself is remarkable enough.

Suchon covers the season from beginning to end, including the Giants' failure to sign Bonds to a long term contract before his "option" season started; and his relationship with his father, Bobby Bonds - an ex-Giant and star in his own right - and Bobby's teammates, Barry's godfather, Willie Mays and his boyhood idol, Willie McCovey.As a youngboy, Barry was a fixture in the Giant clubhouse and would gaze at the players whose records he would someday chase.

Barry's present-day complex relationship with the Giant front office and with his manager, teammates, and opponents, as well as the peaks and valleys of a season in which individual glory didn't necessarily bring about team success, is also discussed.

Suchon also describes the challenges that Bonds faced during a season that must have sometimes seemed less than gracious, including a threat against his life, the actual death of a close personal friend, and a revision of perspective after September 11 (the post-tragedy hiatus also stymied the momentum he had built up beforehand).

Most treacherous of all is the disdainful manner in which Bonds was treated by opposing pitchers who often simply refused to pitch to him, regardless of the game setting.Giants fans will long remember Houston Astros manager, Larry Dierker and his pitching staff skulking on the lowest end of the cowardice scale, and the TV camera shots of Barry's daughters holding signs pleading, "Please pitch to our Daddy".

The relationship that Barry developed with the fans is worth several psychological treatises on human nature. Possibly the most unpopular ballplayer outside of the San Francisco Bay Area, Bonds has always been lustily booed when the Giants play on the road and when he chased McGwire's home run record last year, few fans were rooting for him to break it.

And yet - when Giants opponents refused to pitch to Bonds, the fans - ESPECIALLY the Houston Astros fans !!! - would boo their own team with at least equal fervor!They might have been rooting for Barry's defeat but not at the expense of honor.It's a curious and gratifying aspect of the baseball fan that his sense of fair play might actually outweigh his personal dislike for an individual player.

The book ends after Barry has signed a long-term contract to finish his career with the Giants.And Suchon strikes out by failing to adequately analyze the motives of the star who has said that he wants a World Series ring more than anything else including money but who merely sold his services to the highest bidder.

Indeed, Bonds sold his services to an organization that devotes an extremely disproportionate share of its payroll to reward HIM and cannot or will not purchase the services of other stars that might help propel Bonds and his teammates into the show that Barry says he wants to perform in more than any other.

Moreover, under Dusty Baker, the Giants have become a moribund organization that lives and dies on Bonds's shoulders.

Under predecessor Roger Craig, the Giants were able to master the fine art of moving base runners and MANUFACTURING runs - when their sluggers couldn't overpower the opposition - and "stealing" wins with the hit-and-run, the sacrifice, and the squeeze play.But under Dusty Baker, Giant stewardship has become an entirely personality-driven affair, in which managerial decisions are based on favoritism, not talent or ability to deliver.

And sound fundamental baseball is an ancient memory. This is a team designed to win only if its sluggers produce every day (which even Bonds is not capable of doing) because its manager does not demand or coach excellence in baseball fundamentals.

Bonds must know all of these things and how they affect his championship dreams, but like the lady ofKent (!!!!), he "went" anyway.When analyzing Bonds's personality, the author fails to adequately exposeand account for this.As a result,notwithstanding his thrilling depiction of the most gracious season ever bestowed on a ballplayer by the baseball gods, Josh Suchon still misses some of the show.

A GOOD LOOK AT THE SPOILED SUPERSTAR
THIS BOOK GIVES YOU A GOOD LOOK AT THE TALENT OF ONE OF THE GREATS IN THE SPORT. MR BONDS IS A VERY UNIQUE TALENT WHO IS A VERY COMPLEX PERSON. HIS HISTORICAL SEASON IS WELL DOCUMENTED AND IT IS DONE WITH GREAT DETAIL AND EFFORT. I SEE MANY SIDES OF BARRY BONDS. THE ONE WHO IS TRYING TO BE MORE FRIENDLY AND AWARE OF OTHER PEOPLE BESIDES HIMSELF AND THE ARROGANT SELF CENTERED PERSON OF YEARS GONE BY. ONE OF THE BEST WRITTEN ABOUT THE HISTORIC SEASON OF THE RECORD SMASHING 73. WELL WORTH READING. ... Read more

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Title: Barry Bonds, un bambinazo histórico.(jugador de béisbol profesional)(TT: Barry Bonds, golden boy.)(TA: professional baseball player)(Artículo Breve)
Author: Tay Polo Miranda
Publication: Semana (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 13, 2001
Publisher: Spanish Publications, Inc.
Volume: 7Issue: 445Page: 26

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Title: 7th inning stretch: players with most at-bats without a HR.(Barry Bonds, Jason Tyner)
Author: Chuck Pickard
Publication: Baseball Digest (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 66Issue: 7Page: 46(2)

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The Greatest Baseball Player Ever
the Yankees are my Team,but Barry Bonds is the Greatest Baseball Player that I have Ever seen.two things I always keep up with during baseball season: first how my Yankees did&then how Barry Bonds is doing.this is another cool Book about the Baddest Player in the game.a easy read but also on Point about the Greatest.

another excellent JEFF SAVAGE book
Prospective buyers should know that F. J McCormack, a friend of a rival sportwriter, is pushing misinformation. Jeff Savage and not that other fellow (who engages in enough self promotion that he shouldn't need to resort to having friends step all over Savage's work) is the author of this book.

Let's repeat: Jeff Savage, and no one else, is the author of this book.

As he has established a reputation for doing, Jeff Savage has put together a well-written, easily-readable and always interesting book about a star athlete. Readers young and old will enjoy this book - which was written by JEFF SAVAGE and no one else.

The Best of Barry Bonds
This insightful, well-written book is a must-read for the sports fan interested in a personal, inside view of the multi-faceted personality of the immensely talented Barry Bonds.

Bonds has provided few people with the access and insight he provided Steve Travers, the author.History will prove it to be the definitive work on one of baseball's greatest players.

Frank McCormack
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Great Book on the Greatest
nobody is touching Barry Bonds and the Greatness of his Baseball Genius. this Book explores his great 2001 season and also touches on his hard work deidication and all around greatness as a player. who cares if endorsers pass on him or so called journalist don't like him..etc.. what he does on the field is all the talking and understanding we need. nobody has ever played the game better than him ever. i've always been a fan and always will be. He is the Baddest Cat to ever play Major League Baseball. 5 tool and beyond one of a kind SuperStar. ... Read more

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I ENJOYED THIS BOOK
I enjoyed reading this book and recommend it to others.

STEVEN TRAVERS
AUTHOR OF "BARRY BONDS: BASEBALL'S SUPERMAN"(...)

Barry Bond's Career
Barry Bonds Record Breaker is a great book to tell you a lot about Barry's career in baseball.The book also tells you about Barry's homeruns, like when he beat Mark McGwire's record with 73 homeruns.Also, he got 4 Most Valuable Player Awards, (WOW!), 8 Golden Glove Awards, and is the only player to have over 400 homeruns and stolen bases.I enjoyed learning about Barry's career in baseball. ... Read more