After the #SFGiants retired his number, Barry Bonds took a lap at AT&T in a vintage car signing baseballs and throwing them into the crowd. pic.twitter.com/5wAC2FgxMR
— KNBR (@KNBR) August 12, 2018
Even Barry Bonds harshest critics have to admit, the man has style. Bonds concluded an emotional and star-studded number retirement ceremony in the fashion you’d expect from baseball’s all-time leading home run hitter.
Bonds was congratulated by friends and foes – Eric Gagne made a surprise appearance to a raucous series of jeers from the Giants faithful. Everyone from Bonds’s godfather and Giants icon Willie Mays to 49ers legendary quarterback Joe Montana congratulated Bonds in person or via video.
After Bonds delivered a speech in which he teared up multiple times, recalling his friends, people that helped him along the way, and most of all, his parents, he exited the field in spectacular fashion.
Smiling and in the company of his family, Bonds jumped in the back of a vintage blue-and-white Oldsmobile. He signed baseballs and threw them into the crowd of AT&T Park. He took a lap around the field before exiting the car before hopping out in left field and walking into the dugout.