Two weeks ago, Barry Bonds was inducted into the Pittsburgh Pirates Hall of Fame along with Jim Leyland and Manny Sanguillen. Naturally, reports would ask him about the Baseball Hall of Fame afterward. Bonds tone was a lot different than it had been in previous years:
“I don’t have to worry about those things no more. I want to hang around my grandchildren and children. Those hopes? I don’t have them anymore.”
Bonds, who failed to make it into the Baseball Hall of Fame via the writer’s ballot, appeared on his first senior's ballot, where he received so little support that his vote total was not publicized. This indicates that the respective senior’s committee holds him in less regard than the writers did, thus leaving him worse off than before.
Bonds seems at peace with that.
He remains #1 on our Notinhalloffame Baseball list of those to consider for the Baseball Hall, and it looks like he will stay there for a long time.
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