In Memoriam Bobby Bonds

Growing up in the Bay Area in the early 1970s, I remember three names in particular from the San Francisco Giants: Mays, McCovey, and Bonds. That would be Bobby Bonds, who died this morning of cancer. Last Wednesday he saw his final baseball game, watching from a luxury suite in Pac Bell Park his son the great slugger Barry play against the Atlanta Braves.

Accounts of today’s Giants game at Pac Bell Park are very moving. After a long silence in tribute, and videos of Bobby’s career and life, the Giants played their heart out, and won 3-2 against the Marlins. And people left the park with smiles, just as Bobby would have wanted.