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SAN FRANCISCO -- Barry Bonds doesn't expect to play again this season because of his injured right knee, putting the San Francisco slugger's quest for the career home run record on hold. "I don't think you're going to see me out there this year," Bonds told MLB.com on Monday. "That's the reality of the situation. I'm improving. I'm happy with the progress. I'm working out hard on the exercise bike and the elliptical machine, but I'm just not there yet. The last thing I want is to get back on the field and be out again a week later." Bonds...

N. Dakota senator says steroids nullifies Bonds, McGwire, SosaA North Dakota legislator is trying to muscle Roger Maris' 61-homer season back into baseball's record books because of allegations that the three players who have surpassed him did so with the help of steroids. "If these folks are on the juice, and I believe they're on the juice, then Roger should get his record back," Sen. Joel Heitkamp said. He's sponsoring a resolution that asks baseball commissioner Bud Selig to reinstate Maris' record of 61 home runs in 1961. A spokesman for baseball did not respond to a request for comment....

Barry Bonds, the Anti-Ruth December 9, 2004 Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. The howling mob is right; I was wrong. At the end of the baseball season, more than two months ago, I marveled at Barry Bonds’s preternatural batting statistics. Since then, countless readers have chidden me for ignoring the obvious role steroids have played in enabling Bonds to rewrite the record book from top to bottom. I can only plead that I was trying to give him the benefit of doubt. I should have saved my sympathy for Scott Peterson. I couldn’t believe that “performance-enhancing substances” could...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Barry Bonds' 700th home run ball brought a top bid of $804,129 Wednesday after a 10-day online auction. The ball had received 240 offers by the time Overstock.com closed the bidding. The identity of the top bidder, nicknamed "bomasterj," was not immediately made public. Steve Williams of Pacifica got the ball after a scramble in the left-center field bleachers at SBC Park on Sept. 17 - a mad dash that has fattened his wallet but also landed him in court. Timothy Murphy has sued Williams, contending he should get the ball because he locked it behind...

Bonds used steroids in 2003, trainer says on secret recording Slugger's lawyer sees 'another below-the-belt bash' Lance Williams and Mark Fainaru-Wada, Chronicle Staff Writers Saturday, October 16, 2004 Barry Bonds was using an "undetectable" performance-enhancing drug during the 2003 baseball season, his weight trainer claimed in a conversation that was secretly recorded last year and provided to The Chronicle. Trainer Greg Anderson, 38, who is Bonds' longtime friend and a defendant in the BALCO steroids conspiracy case, also said on the recording that he expected to receive advance warning before the San Francisco Giants superstar had to submit to a...

Palmeiro hits No. 500 05/12/2003 By SEAN HORGAN and BILL CAMPBELL / The Dallas Morning News ARLINGTON – Rafael Palmeiro now walks with baseball's giants. The Texas Rangers first baseman became the 19th member of one of baseball's most exclusive clubs Sunday when he slugged his 500th home run in the seventh inning of the Rangers' 17-10 victory against the Cleveland Indians at The Ballpark in Arlington. The home run came off Cleveland pitcher David Elder, who has the ignominious distinction of surrendering one of baseball's historic home runs. It leaves Palmeiro four homers behind Eddie Murray, the hitting coach...