The year after Barry Bonds was inducted into the Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame, Jeff Kent will be joining his old Giants teammate.
Kent is in the latest BASHOF class, along with former Giants managing general partner Peter Magowan, former Warrior Mitch Richmond, former Raider Raymond Chester and swimming champion Anne Warner Cribbs.
They’ll be honored at the May 16 enshrinement banquet at the Westin St. Francis Hotel. BASHOF has raised nearly $4 million for more than 600 Bay Area youth sports organizations.
Kent and Bonds might not have been close friends, but they were one of baseball’s best 1-2 punches in the late ‘90s and early 2000s.