Bonds is bashing -- and bashed

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Meanwhile Bonds takes on the racist Red Sox crowd
Published 6/15/2007 by GRG51 at Steroid Nation
... The Boston crowd likely will chant 'You took steroids' in the city Bonds labeled 'too racist for me'. Boston Globe story here.

Red Sox News & Notes
Published 6/15/2007 by Ian at SOX & Dawgs
... How will the Boston fans react to Barry Bonds? [Boston Globe]

Baseball Today: Friday, June 15
Published 6/15/2007 by Art Martone (amartone@projo.com) at Projo Sox Blog
... HERE HE COMES: Barry Bonds arrives tonight, and it's safe to say

Barry Bonds Will Play His First Game in the Racist Town
Published 6/15/2007 by Larry Brown at FanHouse
... : "Boston is too racist for me,'' he said. "I couldn't play there.'' It is a judgment, he acknowledges, not derived of firsthand experience -- he missed the 1999 All-Star Game, played in Boston, because of an injury -- but on word-of-mouth. "Only what guys have said," he said, "but that's been going on ever since my dad [Bobby] was playing baseball. I can't play like that. That's not for me, brother." When it was suggested the racial climate has changed in Boston, Bonds demurred. "It ain't changing," he said. "It ain't changing nowhere." They built a tunnel to honor Ted Williams in Boston. What did he imagine would be built for him? "Nothing, man," he said. "I'm black. They don't build stuff for blacks." Since making a trip to visit his son who was attending a private boarding school in Boston, Barry has changed his opinion of the city . Either that, or he's just trying to quell poten

Will the Red Sox Sign Barry Bonds?
Published 6/3/2008 by Michael McCann (noreply@blogger.com) at Sports Law Blog
... now in June, his salary demands have probably dropped quite a bit. The downside to signing Bonds, however, seems equally clear. Bonds would likely be something of a distraction, he is likely to face trial for perjury and obstruction of justice later this year (though the trial, if it occurs, would probably occur after the season), he and Curt Schilling are not known to be friends, and he has previously made caustic statements about the city of Boston, once saying "Boston is too racist for me." If the move happens, it would almost certainly signal that the ...