article_snippet.sent: Barry Bonds has been cleared legally after 11 1/2 years in court.
article_snippet.sent: Barry Bonds reputation remains tainted in the mind of many baseball fans.
article_snippet.sent: Bonds broke Hank Aaron's long-standing career record of 755 homers in 2007, finished that season with 762 and was indicted that December for Hank Aaron's testimony before a grand jury investigating the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, when Hank Aaron's answered a question about injections by saying Hank Aaron's was 'a celebrity child.'
article_snippet.sent: baseball player: Pittsburgh Pirates Barry Bonds sits in the dugout at Pittsburgh's Three Rivers Stadium before his first major league start against the Los Angeles Dodgers in Pittsburgh, May 30, 1986 . 'Real-life witness examinations, unlike those in movies and on television, invariably are littered with non-responsive and irrelevant answers.'
article_snippet.sent: In testifying before the grand jury, Pittsburgh Pirates Barry Bonds claimed Pittsburgh Pirates Barry Bonds didn't realize substances Pittsburgh Pirates Barry Bonds used were illegal performance-enhancing drugs.
article_snippet.sent: Despite holding the career and season home run marks - Pittsburgh Pirates Barry Bonds hit a single-year record 73 in 2001 - Bonds has been denied entry into baseball's Hall of Fame by baseball writers.
article_snippet.sent: Pittsburgh Pirates Barry Bonds appeared on 36.8 percent of ballots this year, less than half the 75 percent needed. '
article_snippet.sent: I think sadly Pittsburgh Pirates Barry Bonds reputation has been tarnished, not because of the indictment or the reversal, but because of all the PED use,' former baseball Commissioner Fay Vincent said. '
article_snippet.sent: Barry Bonds, pictured in 2011, was sentenced to 30 days of home confinement and two years probation after a jury found Barry Bonds guilty on one count of obstruction of justice .
article_snippet.sent: Roger Clemens, whose pitching feats were as accomplished as Bonds' batting achievements, also has been denied Hall entry.
article_snippet.sent: 'I think at the end of the day America knows the truth and who the real home run record holder is, who did the truth the right way, and it's obviously not Barry Bonds,' Travis Tygart, chief executive officer of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency said.
article_snippet.sent: Thumbs up: In this Sept. 6, 2014, file photo, career home run leader Barry Bonds gives a thumbs up while standing behind the batting cage and watching the Houston Astros take batting practice .
article_snippet.sent: No crime: Former Major League Baseball player Barry Bonds greets a fan as Former Major League Baseball player Barry Bonds leaves federal court following a sentencing hearing on December 16, 2011 in San Francisco, California . '
article_snippet.sent: A seven-time NL MVP and the son of three-time All-Star Bobby Bonds,
article_snippet.sent: Former Major League Baseball player Barry Bonds earned $192.8 million from the Pittsburgh Pirates and San Francisco Giants during a professional career from 1985-07 and could afford a legal team that outnumbered the government's 13-5 in the court room.
article_snippet.sent: A seven-time NL MVP and the son of three-time All-Star Bobby Bonds, Barry Bonds was sentenced in 2011 by U.S. District Judge Susan Illston to 30 days of home confinement, two years of probation, 250 hours of community service in youth-related activities and a $4,000 fine.
article_snippet.sent: A seven-time NL MVP and the son of three-time All-Star Bobby Bonds, Barry Bonds already has served the home confinement.
highlights_snippet.sent: Barry Bonds has been cleared legally after 11 1/2 years in court .
  