Our first Throwback Thursday takes a look at San Francisco Giants legend, Barry Bonds. On this day, March 22, 2005, Barry Bonds announced he was thinking about not playing in 2005.
In an interview with media on March 22nd, he let his frustrations out and explained what was going on behind the surface with him. Wrapped up in the center of MLB’s hypocritical crackdown on steroids in baseball, Bonds was still a 40-year-old man coming off multiple knee surgeries in the offseason. Here is a quote from Bonds in Henry Schulman’s write-up of the interview for The Chronicle 13 years ago:
“I’m going to try to let myself heal,” Bonds said.