NEW YORK -- For Giants star Barry Bonds, the playoff chase and baseball must take a back seat for now.
His father, Bobby Bonds, a former San Francisco All-Star who has battled cancer and other ailments for the past year, is seriously ill, and the team placed his son on the bereavement list Thursday to allow him to return to the Bay Area.
The Giants have recalled outfielder Tony Torcato from Triple-A Fresno to take Bonds' roster spot.
The elder Bonds, 57, who underwent open-heart surgery July 25 at a Bay Area hospital, has suffered from lung cancer, brain and kidney tumors as well as the heart problem. He resides in San Carlos, Calif., with his wife, Pat.
Barry Bonds / LF
Height: 6'2"
Weight: 210
Bats/Throws: L/L
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Barry Bonds, who leads the Major Leagues with 37 homers -- he hit two against the New York Mets on Tuesday -- will not be with the team for possibly a week. Players are placed on the bereavement list for a minimum of three days and a maximum of seven.
Bonds spent several days away from Spring Training to fly back to the Bay Area to visit his ill dad, who was later diagnosed with a brain tumor. He also took time off to be with his father during the open-heart surgery.
Bobby Bonds is in his 23rd season with the Giants as either a player, coach, scout or front-office employee. This year, he entered his seventh year as a special assistant, serving as a hitting instructor and scout.
Both manager Felipe Alou and the younger Bonds' teammates have expressed admiration all season how he has managed to hit around .340 and continue to hit home runs -- he has 650 lifetime -- despite dealing with his father's deteriorating health.
His father, Bobby Bonds, a former San Francisco All-Star who has battled cancer and other ailments for the past year, is seriously ill, and the team placed his son on the bereavement list Thursday to allow him to return to the Bay Area.
The Giants have recalled outfielder Tony Torcato from Triple-A Fresno to take Bonds' roster spot.
The elder Bonds, 57, who underwent open-heart surgery July 25 at a Bay Area hospital, has suffered from lung cancer, brain and kidney tumors as well as the heart problem. He resides in San Carlos, Calif., with his wife, Pat.
Barry Bonds / LF
Height: 6'2"
Weight: 210
Bats/Throws: L/L
More info:
Player page
Stats | Splits
Giants site
Bonds shop
Barry Bonds, who leads the Major Leagues with 37 homers -- he hit two against the New York Mets on Tuesday -- will not be with the team for possibly a week. Players are placed on the bereavement list for a minimum of three days and a maximum of seven.
Bonds spent several days away from Spring Training to fly back to the Bay Area to visit his ill dad, who was later diagnosed with a brain tumor. He also took time off to be with his father during the open-heart surgery.
Bobby Bonds is in his 23rd season with the Giants as either a player, coach, scout or front-office employee. This year, he entered his seventh year as a special assistant, serving as a hitting instructor and scout.
Both manager Felipe Alou and the younger Bonds' teammates have expressed admiration all season how he has managed to hit around .340 and continue to hit home runs -- he has 650 lifetime -- despite dealing with his father's deteriorating health.
Chuck...I am kicking myself...i was at the Palms the week of 4th of July. I grabbed all the futures sheets..and looked over them that night. They had Sammy Sosa at 50-1 to win this years HR title. Went back to get down the next day..and odds had dropped to 25-1. Missed opportunity. Oh well.
wiz
wiz
Some of the best instructors were not good players...I don`t care for Bonds really but what he`s doing is phenomenal...Babe Ruth will always be the man for all times....But NO ONE has ever been pitched as carefully as Bonds, he is the games best player...Imagine Bonds having protection around him...
Bobby must be awful close to dying....
Bobby must be awful close to dying....
Oh I couldn`t agree more Dicky....
Rose is a totall dirtbag...Even his own family isn`t wild about Pete...Pete`s reaction " why are they upset about stuff that happened in 1976"? Ummm, Well Pete that was their childhood you couldn`t have cared less about....Besides baseball I have never heard one good thing about Rose..
Rose is a totall dirtbag...Even his own family isn`t wild about Pete...Pete`s reaction " why are they upset about stuff that happened in 1976"? Ummm, Well Pete that was their childhood you couldn`t have cared less about....Besides baseball I have never heard one good thing about Rose..
Hey Shrink, who let this deadbeat Clevfan in here??. How'd she get in? Hey Clevfan, you are not allowed in here. Go back to MW where you belong. Go suck Russ's dick. You do a great job at it.. Why you posting here for? I thought you said you'd never post here again. This is my home now, not yours... So get out of my house..
And why the hell are you laughing at me for?
? It's not funny.
You know I'm down in the dumps now, did you have to remind me geez..
That's not nice. First you try to take me down with RIO, and you end up getting all my money.. And now you rub it in my face about my buddy Barry?? You're not funny!!!...
Why did you have to laugh at me for? You hurt my feelings..
All you did was open up a can of worms because now our little buddy Chucky (i am the #1 GCS shill) Sims is now picking on me. Thanks a lot..
You shouldn't be laughing at me Clevfan, because if you noticed, I have NOT made fun of you at all regarding RIO. Well.... not yet at least girl.. I've had NO time at all, as I have been hardly home. But believe me girl, when summer finishes, I will be rubbing it in your face about my RIO thing, so just prepare yourself.
You shouldn't be laughing at me Clevfan, because if you noticed, I have NOT made fun of you at all regarding RIO. Well.... not yet at least girl.. I've had NO time at all, as I have been hardly home. But believe me girl, when summer finishes, I will be rubbing it in your face about my RIO thing, so just prepare yourself.
