SF Examiner: Despite scandal, slugger Barry Bonds' legacy remains fully intact

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Art Spander in Barry Bonds, Giants, Steroids, articles, baseball

By Art Spander
Special to The Examiner

The numbers are not going to change, and neither are most opinions. Barry Bonds will keep the home run records he set, even if everyone from Cooperstown to Candlestick knows he used performance-enhancing drugs.

What everyone didn’t know was he could be convicted for previously testifying before a grand jury that, in effect, he was a celebrity child. That was his defense 7½ years ago.

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