A new group of Hall of Fame voters delivered Giants legend Barry Bonds the same old result Sunday.
Bonds failed to get the requisite 12 votes from a 16-person committee of executives, media members and Hall of Fame players at the winter meetings in San Diego.
Several anti-steroid hardliners were among the seven players on the Today's Game Era committee, likely dooming Bonds' fate. The committee considered a group of MLB players from the post-1980 game, including Bonds' beleaguered contemporaries Roger Clemens and Rafael Palmeiro. Fred McGriff was the only player elected.
Bonds' ties to performance-enhancing drugs kept him out of the Hall of Fame in his decade on the ballot, despite his status as arguably the greatest hitter in the history of the sport.