Barry Bonds: Baseball's Superman

About this book

Barry Bonds: Baseballs Superman is the biography of the games 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. A misunderstood superstar who has long engaged in a running feud with the media Bonds broke new ground this past season maturing into an elder statesman of baseball. Long considered the games best player Bonds ascension to greatness has taken him into truly rarefied air. Now a free-agent he will sign a blockbuster deal before the 2002 season. Whether hes dressed in his familiar Giants uniform or that of another baseball power Bonds will continue to receive front-page treatment for the balance of his career. The greatest athlete in the world right now he embarks on milestones -- 3 000 career hits 755 homers a World Championship -- that may elevate him to the title Greatest Baseball Player of All Time. Author Steven Travers book documents the superstars 2001 campaign as Bonds defied the very bounds of conventional logic and perfected the art of long-ball hitting. Travers also describes Bonds 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. It will be a book that delves into the intensely private proud mind and ego of a man who understands baseball history and his place in it.