Baseball Autograph Of The Week: Barry Bonds

Autograph Of The Week: Barry Bonds

On April 17, 2001, Barry Bonds became the seventeenth Major League player to hit five-hundred home runs, and probably the first to do it with a splash! Bonds' two-run, eighth-inning drive off Terry Adams went into San Francisco Bay and led the Giants over the Los Angeles Dodgers 3-to-2.

The homer off Adams splashed into McCovey Cove beyond the right-field fence. Bonds rounded the bases and jumped with both feet on home plate before embracing his father, former major leaguer Bobby Bonds. The left-field fence opened up and former Giants Willie Mays and Willie McCovey - also members of the five-hundred home runs club - were whisked by a golf cart to a ceremony at home plate.

"When I hit it, I couldn't believe I hit it. Everything was in slow motion. It looked like it was stopped in midair. Then I saw it went past those people (on the left field wall) and I thought, 'Wow! I did it!'" - Barry Bonds

Barry Bonds Autograph

Card
1990 Upper Deck

Card Number
227

Pen
Black Sharpie

Notes
Early full signature sample.

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Read the details of Barry Bonds' historic game and HEAR the home run being hit! How? Baseball Almanac has put the entire box score online for you to review, enjoy, and learn from!

Barry Bonds had 7,502 at-bats when he hit home run number five-hundred and he was thirty-six years old. Compare those numbers to other members of the 500 Home Runs Club to see how Bonds compares!

Did you know that this was the first time in Barry Bonds' Major League career where he had hit a home run in five consecutive games?

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