This Gracious Season: Barry Bonds and the Greatest Year in Baseball

by Josh Suchon

Just as players and coaches are hitting their stride at spring training, a new book, This Gracious Season (Winter Publications, March 2002), reminds us what a magical season 2001 was for the San Francisco Giants and their Future Hall-of-Fame slugger, Barry Bonds.

About the Author

Josh Suchon, the Giants' beat writer for the Oakland Tribune, has a unique behind-closed-door access to Bonds and the team, which inspired him to chronicle his experiences of watching, listening and discussing Bonds' chase of the most hallowed record in all of sports -- the single season home run record. However this isn't just a book about home runs. It's about putting Bonds' home runs into context. What made them special as singular moments in time. What they did to fuel the anticipation of more home runs. And how, as a whole, they made 2001 one gracious season for Barry Lamar Bonds.

392 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 2002

Reviews

[Sonya Schapira · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pretty good read for this Giants fan who has mixed feelings about Barry Bonds. I found myself picking up the book to read "just a bit" whenever I had a few minutes - so, I was quite drawn in to the story. Only lightly touches upon the steroids issue, but was published in 2002.