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Bonds, Ramirez Elected To Hall
Conversial Players To Be Enshrined This Summer
1/1/2010
Cooperstown- Barry Bonds and Manny Ramirez will be the only inductees into the Hall of Fame this summer.
Bonds, whose career was overshadowed by BALCO and the steroids controversy, is the all-time home run king, having broken Hank Aaron's record of 755 in 2008. He finished with 756 homers, 2961 hits and 2011 RBI, and a career average of .297.
"I'm excited, I wasn't sure if I would get elected due to all the off-field stuff," said Bonds, "But I couldn't change any of that."
Bonds started out in Pittsburgh, but his career flurished in San Francisco after joining the Giants in 1993.
Manny Ramirez will be considered maybe the best right handed hitter of his generation. The aloof Ramirez played for the Cleveland Indians and Boston Red Sox, pounding 537 career homers and compliling a .304 career average. He played his final season in Tucson for the Tornadoes of the ABL.
"This is a great feeling," said Ramirez, who will be inducted as a Boston Red Sox, "I loved playing the game for so long, now I get to move onto a new chapter in my life."
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