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Bonds rejoins Giants as special adviser, calls team ‘family’

JANIE McCAULEY ways been my home and 2017 Hall of Fame ballot
AP Baseball Writer the Giants will always be by the Baseball Writers’ As-
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — my family. I look forward sociation of America, up
Barry Bonds is back with to spending time with the from 44.3 percent the pre-
the San Francisco Giants, team, young players in vious year. He got just 36.2
just as the club had hoped. the system as well as the percent on his initial ballot
Bonds, who spent a one- Bay Area community.” Gi- appearance in 2013.
season stint as Miami’s hit- ants manager Bruce Bochy The seven-time NL MVP
ting coach last year before was glad to have Bonds. spent his final 15 seasons
being fired, will serve as a “He’s been here before, with the Giants and hit 762
special adviser to chief ex- so it’s not something new career home runs.
ecutive Larry Baer. to us. He’ll be helping out In July 2015, federal pros-
The home run king was just like all the other guest ecutors dropped what was
scheduled to help coach instructors that we have left of their criminal case
at spring training beginning here. Right now, we have against him after a nearly
Wednesday in Scottsdale, Will Clark, Rich Aurilia. We decade-long steroids pros-
Arizona. He will work with could put together a pret- ecution, something the
the minor league teams, ty good team here if we slugger told The AP lifted a
something that had been Barry Bonds responds to a question during a news conference wanted, with an old Giant huge weight from his shoul-
in the works for a couple of Wednesday, March 22, 2017, in Scottsdale, Ariz. Bonds has club here of all the guys ders. Bonds, the seven-time
months. General manager joined the San Francisco Giants front office as a special adviser. that we have,” Bochy said. NL MVP, broke Hank Aar-
Bobby Evans mentioned it Associated Press “More than anything, I think on’s career home record
last month at FanFest . lie Mays, Willie McCovey, sent the organization in the you’ll see him working with of 755 on Aug. 7, 2007, in
“We are delighted to wel- Orlando Cepeda and community and at various Bam-Bam (hitting coach the last of his 22 big league
come Barry back home to other distinguished alumni Giants events. Hensley Meulens) and the seasons. All along, he’s said
the Giants,” Baer said. “As who help advise the club “I am excited to be back hitters. Barry, we welcome he knows in his heart he’s
one of the greatest players and we look forward to home with the Giants and him and he’ll be part of this a Hall of Famer — regard-
of all-time, Barry’s contribu- working with him again. “ join the team in an official staff for a week,” he said. less of the results each year
tions to our organization Now an avid cyclist at age capacity,” Bonds said. Bonds received 53.8 per- or whether he is ever en-
are legendary. He joins Wil- 52, Bonds also will repre- “San Francisco has al- cent of the vote in the shrined at Cooperstown.q

Jerry Krause, Bulls’ GM during 1990s dynasty, dies at 77

ANDREW SELIGMAN soaring around Chicago 1987 draft-day trade that
AP Sports Writer and Phil Jackson pulling the brought Pippen to Chi-
CHICAGO (AP) — Jerry strings from the sideline, the cago. On top of that, he
Krause, the general man- Bulls dominated in a way drafted Horace Grant with
ager of the Chicago Bulls few teams have. Krause, the 10th overall selection
during a 1990s dynasty that who took over as general that year, adding two ma-
included six NBA champi- manager in 1985, was re- jor pieces to the champi-
onships with Michael Jor- sponsible for surrounding onship foundation.
dan and Scottie Pippen, Jordan with the pieces that A baseball player at Taft
has died. He was 77. helped create two cham- High School on Chicago’s
The Bulls confirmed his pionship three-peats in the Northwest Side, Krause
death on Tuesday. 1990s. spent more than five de-
A Chicago native, Krause “Jerry was a key figure in cades in professional sports
spent 18 seasons lead- the Chicago Bulls’ dynasty as an executive and scout.
ing the Bulls’ front office of the 1990s and meant so He was responsible for
and was a two-time NBA much to the Bulls, the White drafting Hall of Famers Earl
executive of the year. He Sox and the entire city of Monroe and Wes Unseld as
helped put together a run Chicago,” Jordan, the a scout for the Baltimore
that ranks among the most Charlotte Hornets’ owner, Bullets. He helped select
successful in NBA history said through his spokesper- Jerry Sloan, Norm Van Lier,
and made the franchise a son. Clifford Ray, Michael Coo-
worldwide brand. Krause hired Jackson from per and Norm Nixon as a
“The entire Bulls organiza- the Continental Basket- scout for the Phoenix Suns,
tion is deeply saddened ball Association as an as- Los Angeles Lakers and the
by the passing of Jerry sistant to Doug Collins and Bulls in an earlier stint.
Krause,” chairman Jerry fired Collins in favor of Krause also worked for
Reinsdorf said. “Jerry was Jackson following a run to baseball’s Cleveland In-
one of the hardest work- the Eastern Conference fi- dians, Oakland Athletics,
ing guys I have ever been nals in 1989. At the time, it Seattle Mariners, White
around, and he was one was not a popular move. Sox, New York Yankees,
of the best talent evalua- But did it ever pay off in a New York Mets and,
tors ever. Jerry played an big way. most recently, Arizona
integral role in our run of The same goes for the Diamondbacks.q
six championships in eight
years. He truly was the ar- In this Oct. 2, 1995, file photo, Chicago Bulls general manager
chitect of all our great Jerry Krause speaks to the media in Deerfield, Ill., about trading
teams in the ‘90s.” center Will Perdue for the flamboyant San Antonio Spurs’ Dennis
With Jordan and Pippen Rodman.
Associated Press