{"id":792058,"date":"2018-02-06T01:58:06","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T06:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/?p=792058"},"modified":"2018-02-06T01:58:06","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T06:58:06","slug":"giants-to-retire-barry-bonds-number","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/giants-to-retire-barry-bonds-number\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants to Retire Barry Bonds\u2019 Number?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/hovgpodcast\"><img alt=\"Giants to Retire Barry Bonds\u2019 Number?\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-757157 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thebloguin.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/10\/support-the-hovg-podcast-go-fund-me.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"39\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/support-the-hovg-podcast-go-fund-me.jpg 650w, https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/support-the-hovg-podcast-go-fund-me-555x34.jpg 555w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIn their 134-year history, the New York\/San Francisco Giants have retired only ten numbers\u2026the last being Monte Irvin\u2019s Number 20 nearly 18 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Well, move over Monte, it looks like you might be getting some company.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SFGiants\/status\/960723735408865280\">In a cryptic tweet Monday night<\/a><\/strong>, the Giants left fans wondering if Barry Bonds\u2019 Number 25 would (finally) be officially retired.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Coming soon \ud83d\udc40 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uKfGKC2YqT\">pic.twitter.com\/uKfGKC2YqT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; SFGiants (@SFGiants) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SFGiants\/status\/960723735408865280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 6, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>If this tweet is indeed what it appears, it won\u2019t be the first time the team has honored baseball\u2019s Home Run King. This past July, Bonds was added to the Wall of Fame outside AT&amp;T Park. To be eligible, players had to have played nine seasons for the Giants, or played five and made an All-Star team.<\/p>\n<p>Now, if the team is indeed retiring Bonds\u2019 number, it would be a departure from tradition. You see, unlike the Wall of Fame, all of the players that have had their numbers retired have been Hall of Famers. Bonds just completed his sixth year on the Hall of Fame ballot and still has a way to go before he joins them in Cooperstown.<\/p>\n<p>As previously mentioned, the Giants have retired nine of their own numbers\u2026Bill Terry (3), Mel Ott (4), Carl Hubbell (11), Monte Irvin (20), Mays (24), Juan Marichal (27), Orlando Cepeda (30), Gaylord Perry (36) and Willie McCovey (44).<\/p>\n<p>In 1997, Jackie Robinson\u2019s number 42 was retired across all of Major League Baseball.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to those ten numbers, the team also retired the jerseys of Christy Mathewson and legendary manager John McGraw.<\/p>\n<p>We can all agree Bonds would be a nice addition, right? Let\u2019s just hope they <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/hall-of-very-good\/giants-screw-up-barry-bonds-plaque\/\">get the plaque right<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Watch Barry Bonds help unveil his own plaque on Giants Wall of Fame\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b-4ukkK0JYM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-hall-of-very-good-podcast\/id1064701432?mt=2\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-611442\" src=\"https:\/\/thebloguin.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/01\/web-graphics-podcast-2.jpg\" alt=\"web-graphics-podcast-2\" width=\"640\" height=\"39\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/web-graphics-podcast-2.jpg 650w, https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/web-graphics-podcast-2-555x34.jpg 555w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In their 134-year history, the New York\/San Francisco Giants have retired only ten numbers\u2026the last being Monte Irvin\u2019s Number 20&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":714023,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2607199,703638948,231608556,1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.2 (Yoast SEO v22.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Giants to Retire Barry Bonds\u2019 Number? 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