Barry Bonds: Baseball's Superman

by Steven Travers

Barry Baseball Superman is the biography of the game's 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. Author Steven Travers documents the superstar's 2001 campaign as Bonds defied the very bounds of conventional logic and perfected the art of long-ball hitting. Travers also describes Bonds's 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.

200 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2002

Reviews

[Brent Soderstrum · Rating 2 out of 5]

I am a big Giants fan and Bonds was my favorite player so it would be hard to write a book about Bonds 2001 season in which he hit 73 homeruns and not give it four or five stars. Steven Travers accomplished that though. Travers is just a bad writer. Most of his material he takes from the ESPN show Sports Century. He talks about his own minor league baseball career. I could careless about that Steven. He mentions the Bonds steroid rumors yet refuses to even address it. There is also absolutel no flow to the book. It jumps here and there. Bad writing.

[Ron Kaplan]

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