Bonds, Giants Finalize Deal
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SAN FRANCISCO — Barry Bonds and the San Francisco Giants completed a $15.8 million, one-year contract last night after the slugger spent hours at the ballpark being examined by team doctors.
A baseball official confirmed the deal, speaking on condition of anonymity because the club had not yet announced it.
The contract was finalized nearly two months after the sides reached agreement on financial terms December 7, the final day of baseball’s winter meetings. Bonds had to pass a physical, and the parties had to work out complicated language regarding Bonds’s behavior and what would happen if the slugger were to be indicted.
A federal grand jury is investigating whether Bonds perjured himself when he testified in 2003 in the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative steroid distribution case that he hadn’t knowingly taken any performance-enhancing drugs.
Bonds waved, yelled “hello, hello” and smiled as he left the stadium yesterday and drove away, with agent Jeff Borris in the passenger seat. Borris did not immediately return calls from the Associated Press.
