Pirates Induct MLB Home Run Leader Barry Bonds Into Hall Of Fame

The Pittsburgh Pirates held their 2024 Hall of Fame ceremony Saturday, featuring a big name’s induction.

Former Pirates manager Jim Leyland and catcher Manny Sanguillen were both inducted, but the biggest name joining the Hall of Fame was outfielder Barry Bonds.

Bonds spent the first seven seasons of his major league career with Pittsburgh after being drafted sixth overall in the 1985 MLB Draft. In those seven seasons, Bonds hit .275 with 176 home runs, 556 RBIs, 251 stolen bases, and a .883 OPS.

The outfielder won his first two MVP awards with the team in the 1990 and 1992 campaigns, and he’d go on to win five more for a record seven MVP wins throughout his career. Bonds was also a three-time Gold Glove winner and three-time Silver Slugger winner in his time with the Buccos.

While Bonds has not been inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame, the 60-year-old says that he no longer thinks about that anymore.

“I don’t have to worry about those things no more in my life,” Bonds said at the Pirates Hall of Fame induction, as transcribed by the Associated Press. “(I want to) hang around my grandchildren and my children. Those hopes (of making the Hall of Fame), I don’t have them anymore. I hope to breathe tomorrow (and see) if I can make it to 61.”

Bonds also called the induction into the Pirates Hall of Fame “a great honor.” You can check out the Hall of Fame induction here.

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