Barbra Streisand

As of 2005, her US album sales rank her as the top-selling female recording artist in the US. However, as a player with 10 years of major league service (five with the same club), Bonds must approve any deal, and he has stated on the record that he will not accept a trade. In 1995 she received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Giants owner Peter Magowan says he wants Bonds back but would not rule out a trade. Among her many awards are two Oscars, six Emmys, eleven Golden Globes, ten Grammys, a Tony award, two Cable Ace awards, the American Film Institute's Lifetime Achievement Award, as well as a number of other awards. The Giants, it is presumed, may be better off moving forward without Bonds than spending another season fretting over his availability at a price of $18 million; however, the box-office benefits to the club of Bonds' seemingly-inevitable chase to overtake Hank Aaron's 755 home runs could result in Bonds' continued sojourn in San Francisco. This "grand slam" as an honoree has never been duplicated by any other performer in history. Bonds, who will turn 42 in July 2006, may be better off as a designated hitter than trying to play left field regularly on his thrice-surgically repaired right knee.

Over the years, Streisand has been the recipient of an award in every medium she has worked in. His salary for the 2005 season was $22 million, and is tied with Manny Ramirez for the second-highest salary in Major League Baseball. Streisand is considered a favorite icon to some in the gay community — some of her earliest performances were at gay clubs, her son Jason is openly gay, and in 1992 she campaigned against Colorado's Amendment 2, which prevented cities or state government from extending equal civil rights protections to homosexuals. Bonds re-signed with the Giants for a five-year, $90 million contract in January 2002. This was affectionately satirized by Mike Myers's "Linda Richman" series of sketches on Saturday Night Live, during one of which Streisand herself made a surprise appearance with Madonna and Roseanne. However, according the San Francisco Chronicle, in the transcript of Bonds' December 4, 2003 grand jury testimony, prosecutors showed Bonds documents detailing both the steroids they alleged he used, as well as "a drug for female infertility that can be used to mask steroid use" [2]. Streisand's strong, larger-than-life personality has made her an icon to some members of her fan base. Bonds has failed no Major League Baseball drug test taken in 2003, 2004 or 2005.

Streisand lost the suit and was ordered to pay the photographer's attorneys' fees.[2]. Some baseball pundits, fans, and even players have taken this as evidence that Bonds has used illegal steroids. She attracted unfavorable attention for a 2003 lawsuit she filed against a photographer whose aerial photos documenting the California coast included an image of her Malibu estate. In August 2005, all four defendants in the BALCO steroid scandal trial, including Anderson, struck deals with federal prosecutors that did not require them to reveal names of athletes who may have used banned drugs. Streisand is known for her outspoken liberal political views, and is a staunch supporter of the Democratic Party. Bonds said that at the time he did not believe them to be steroids. She briefly dated Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau in the early 1970s, had long-term relationships with hairdresser-turned-producer Jon Peters and tennis player Andre Agassi, and later married actor James Brolin in 1998. BALCO founder Victor Conte had identified "the clear" as the designer steroid THG, and prosecutors contended "the cream" was a testosterone-based ointment.

She was married to Elliott Gould from 1963 to 1971, with whom she had her only child, son Jason Gould (who later appeared as her character's son in The Prince of Tides). During grand jury testimony on December 4, 2003 — which was obtained through unknown means by the San Francisco Chronicle and published almost a year later, on December 3, 2004 [1] — Bonds said Anderson gave him a rubbing balm and a liquid substance he called "the cream" and "the clear".
. Bonds declared his innocence, attributing his changed physique and increased power to a strict regimen of bodybuilding and legitimate dietary supplements. The film was very successful commercially and Streisand garnered positive reviews. This led to speculation that Bonds had used performance-enhancing drugs during a time when there was no mandatory testing in Major League Baseball. In 2004, Streisand reappeared on the big screen in the comedy Meet the Fockers, playing opposite Dustin Hoffman, Ben Stiller, and Robert DeNiro among others. Anderson of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative, Bonds' trainer since 2000, was indicted by a federal grand jury and charged with supplying anabolic steroids to athletes, including a number of unnamed baseball players.

[1] Some claimed that her well-known uncompromising, tough behavior was to blame for the slight, while others felt that Hollywood was punishing her for being a woman, and if a man behaved the same way, he would have been given recognition. In 2003, Bonds became embroiled in a scandal when Greg F. There was more controversy when Prince of Tides received even more nominations, including Best Picture, but Streisand still was snubbed for Best Director. Bonds continued his pre-injury dominance at the plate, hitting home runs in four consecutive games from September 18 to September 21. There was controversy when Yentl received five Academy Award nominations but none for the major categories of Best Picture, Actress, or Director. Bonds finished the night 1-for-4 with a double. Steven Spielberg called Yentl a masterpiece, and many critics praised both it and Prince of Tides. In his return against the San Diego Padres, he nearly hit a home run in his first at-bat, but the ball was ruled to be only a double due to fan interference.

For Yentl (1983) she was producer, director, writer, and star, an experience she largely repeated for The Prince of Tides (1991). He was indeed activated that day and immediately returned to being a starter in left field. She has produced a number of her own films, setting up Barwood Films in 1972. On September 10, the Giants announced that Bonds would be activated on September 12. When High Society magazine later published the original photos of her bare breasts, Streisand sued them. In September, Bonds started working out with the team while the team was in Los Angeles, playing the Dodgers. She quickly regretted the move and bought up all prints of the film, deleting the scene. On August 5, however, he stated on his website that he was unsure but remained optimistic.

In 1970, she had a topless scene in The Owl and the Pussycat. On August 1, in an interview with MLB.com, Bonds stated that he would most likely not return for the 2005 season due to continued buildup of fluid in the knee due to activities. Streisand's initial outing with First Artists, while not a huge commercial success, was the personal Up the Sandbox (1972). It also raised much speculation as to whether Hank Aaron's career home run record of 755 is out of reach. Along with Paul Newman and Sidney Poitier, Barbra Streisand formed First Artists Production Company in 1970 so these actors could secure properties and develop movie projects for themselves. This setback led many to assume Bonds would not play in the 2005 season. Her second Academy Award was as composer of the song "Evergreen", from A Star Is Born (1976) and was the first time a woman had received this award (the film itself, though, was widely criticized as a vanity project). On May 4, Bonds revealed on his website that he had undergone a third arthroscopic knee surgery because of a bacterial infection in his knee.

She also starred in the original screwball comedies What's Up, Doc? (1972), with Ryan O'Neal, and For Pete's Sake (1974), and the hugely successful drama The Way We Were with Robert Redford. For the media, this story was irresistible in light of baseball's recently toughened testing program for steroids. Her next two movies were also based on musicals, Jerry Herman's Hello, Dolly! (1969) and Alan Jay Lerner's and Burton Lane's On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1970), while her fourth film was based on the Broadway play The Owl and the Pussycat (1970). Later, Bonds sounded positive about his rehabilitation and told fans at the Opening Day festivities, "I will be back!" The chances of Bonds' return to the playing field were covered relentlessly through the summer by ESPN, in anticipation of potentially unprecedented scrutiny by the media and baseball fans. Her first film was a reprise of her Broadway hit, Funny Girl (1968), for which she won the 1968 Academy Award for Best Actress, sharing it with Katharine Hepburn (The Lion in Winter), the first time there was a tie in this Oscar category. At the press conference, Bonds also indicated that he was frustrated by the focus on his alleged steroid use and the negative portrayal of him in the media. Guilty Pleasures (called Guilty Too in the UK), a collaboration with Barry Gibb and a sequel album to their previous Guilty, was released worldwide in 2005. On March 22, 2005, Bonds announced that he could be sidelined for the rest of the 2005 season because of surgery on his knee.

Her most recent albums have been Christmas Memories (2001), a collection of somber holiday songs, and The Movie Album (2003), featuring famous movie themes and backed by a large symphony orchestra. Many of the game's best players, hitter and pitcher alike, remain in awe of Bonds' bat speed and dominance at the plate. At the end of the last millennium, she still was the number-one female singer in the United States, with at least 2 # 1 albums in each decade since she had started out. Today Bonds is generally considered to be the best hitter in the game, and comparable only to a handful of hitters in the sport's entire history. She later toured Australia with that programme, called Timeless, which was also released on a two-disc album by Columbia. Bonds holds virtually every record associated with walks, whether in a season (232), in a game (6), or intentional (4). On New Year's Eve 1999 she returned to the concert stage, scoring another personal triumph for giving the highest grossing single concert in Las Vegas history to date. The very next year, he broke Ted Williams' single-season on-base percentage record with .582, and then shattered his own record in 2004 with an unprecedented .609.

Barbra Streisand: The Concert, went on to be the top grossing concert of the year, earned 2 Emmy Awards, the prestigous Peabody Award, and the taped broadcast on HBO is to-date, the highest rated concert special in HBO's 30year history. In 2001, Bonds hit 73 HRs (the only time he has hit over 50 in a season), and even more astonishingly, surpassed Babe Ruth's record of single-season slugging percentage with a mind-blowing .863. Ticket prices ranged from $50 to $1,500 - making Streisand the highest paid concert performer in history. While by the end of the decade Bonds was regarded as a surefire Hall of Famer, it was in the beginning of the millennium - at the age of 37 - when Bonds would surpass his peers and achieve a level that only a couple of hitters in the history of the game have achieved. Streisand also hit the cover of every major magazine, in anticipation of what TIME MAGAZINE named, "The Music Event of the Century." The tour was one of the biggest all-media merchandise parlays in history. Through the decade, Bonds was a very patient hitter and great slugger who stole bases and played exceptional defense. Tickets to the limited tour were sold out in under 1 hr. However, while Bonds was nominated as a finalist for the Major League Baseball All-Century Team that year, Griffey was actually elected to it, probably due to being more popular rather than more impressive or more respected.

In September 1993, Streisand made news again, announcing her first public concert tour in 27years. When the Sporting News list was redone in 2005, Bonds jumped up 28 spaces to Number 6 All Time, behind only Babe Ruth, Willie Mays, Ty Cobb, Walter Johnson, and Hank Aaron. A year later, Streisand made an unusal comeback, landing a #1 Album, BACK TO BROADWAY, which was certified Platinum prior to release. In 1999, with only statistics through 1997 counted, Bonds ranked Number 34 on The Sporting News' list of the 100 Greatest Baseball Players, making him the highest-ranking active player (next-best was Greg Maddux at Number 39), while Griffey came in at Number 93. A Concert Tour was suggested to her and she debated it for nearly 2 yrs, due to her immense stage fright. was voted Player of the Decade in the 1990s, many believed that Bonds was the better player. However, Streisand's music career was on hold. Although Ken Griffey Jr.

Streisand later introduced Clinton at his Inauguration in 1992. The Proceeds were then split between Popov and Hayashi. Streisand's concert fundraising events helped propel Clinton into the spotlight and into office. In the end Comic book creator and producer Todd McFarlane, paid $450,000 for the ball at an auction. She was again, proclaimed the most influential entertainer by the New York Times, for her relationship with President William Clinton. Several experts estimated the ball to be worth around $1.5 Million. Around 1992, however, music success was not in Streisand's favor. 28, 2002 ruling that stated: Since Popov did briefly have control of the ball, and since Hayashi ultimately ended up with it and could not be shown to have caused Popov to lose it, both men, said McCarthy, had "equal claim under the law.".

The movie was a box office hit, bringing in close to 100Million at the Box Office and was Nominated for 7 Academy Awards. In the end, McCarthy issued a Dec. At the same time, Ms Streisand presented her 2nd film as a director, THE PRINCE OF TIDES. He even convened a summit of experts, during which the case law was applied to the legal quandary: Just what constitutes possession of a baseball that lands in the stands?. A separate disc, entitled "Highlights from Just for the Record" featured two dozen tracks, including live material, greatest hits, and rarities, from her early recordings up to 1991. Ultimately Superior Court Judge Kevin McCarthy considered arguments based on old whaling laws, precedent-setting fox hunting cases, and laws about abandoned property. In 1991 she released a four-disc box set, entitled Just for the Record. Patrick Hayashi said he found it rolling free in the minute-long melee.

The album featured some songs reworked by Stephen Sondheim especially for this recording, was critically acclaimed, nominated as ALBUM OF THE YEAR and landed Streisand her 8th Grammy as Best Female Vocalist. Alex Popov claimed he was the first person to get a glove on the baseball only to have it taken away in the ensuing scuffle. This was an unexpected commercial success, holding the coveted #1 BillBoard position for 3 weeks straight, and being certified 3x Platinum. 7, 2001 two men laid claim to ownership of the baseball. Streisand returned to her musical theater roots with 1985's The Broadway Album. After the homerun on Oct. In 1982, music critic Stephen Holden wrote that Streisand was "The most influential mainstream American pop singer since Frank Sinatra.". On September 17, 2004, Bonds hit his 700th home run off San Diego Padres pitcher Jake Peavy in San Francisco and became only the third man to achieve the 700 home run plateau.

When the 1970s ended, Streisand was named the most successful female singer in the US, with only Elvis Presley and The Beatles having sold more albums. On May 28, 1998, Bonds became one of only four players in major league history to be intentionally walked with the bases loaded, when the Arizona Diamondbacks elected to give up a run and face catcher Brent Mayne instead. During the 1970s she was also highly prominent in the pop charts, with number-one records like "The Way We Were", "Evergreen", "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)" and "Woman In Love"; some of these came from soundtrack records to her films. He broke his previous record of 68 intentional walks, set in 2002, on July 10, 2004 in his last appearance before the All-Star break. Starting in 1969, Streisand tackled contemporary songwriters; she foundered on attempts to tackle rock, but finally found success with the pop and ballad-oriented, Richard Perry-produced Stoney End in 1971, whose Laura Nyro-written title track was a big hit. In the first month of the 2004 season, Bonds drew 43 walks, 22 of them intentional. Beginning with My Name Is Barbra her albums were often medley-filled keepsakes of her television specials. Bonds, a prolific home run hitter, is an easy candidate for the intentional walk.

Her early works in the 1960s (her debut, The Second Barbra Streisand Album, The Third Album, My Name Is Barbra, etc.) are considered classic renditions of theatre and nightclub standards, including her famously ironic version of "Happy Days Are Here Again". Bonds holds almost every major league record in existence for intentional walks with four in a nine-inning game (2004), 120 in a season (2004) and 604 in his career (more than the next two players on the all-time list, Hank Aaron and Willie McCovey, combined). Barbra Streisand has recorded more than 60 albums, almost all with the Columbia Records label. He has been the league leader in the category for 13 of the past 14 seasons.
. Bonds also has the 2nd- and 3rd-highest single-season intentional walk totals, with 68 in 2002 and 61 in 2003. The first special, My Name Is Barbra (1965), is considered by many to be the best, and has been praised by critics and fans. Included in Bonds' 2004 total were 120 intentional walks, the most issued since MLB began recording them separately in 1954.

After some notable television guest appearances, Streisand built on her success with a number of television specials for CBS. His total of 232 walks was 105 more than the next closest leader, Lance Berkman, Todd Helton, and Bobby Abreu who all had 127. Starting in 1962 Streisand also appeared on Broadway, first in a small but star-making role in the musical I Can Get It for You Wholesale (1962) when she was still a teenager, and then as lead role Fanny Brice in Jule Styne's and Bob Merrill's Funny Girl (1964). Later in 2004, he broke his own single-season record for walks, becoming the first player with over 200 in a season and ending the season with 232. Her recording success continued, and at one time, Streisand's first three albums appeared simultaneously on Billboard's pop albums Top Ten - an amazing feat considering it was at a time when rock and roll and The Beatles dominated the charts. On July 4, 2004, Bonds passed Rickey Henderson to take the lead in career walks, with his 2191st. She signed her first recording contract with Columbia Records in 1962 and her first album, The Barbra Streisand Album, won two Grammy Awards in 1963. (Ellison was in a kayak in McCovey Cove, an arm of San Francisco Bay that lies behind the right-field stands at SBC Park, so this wasn't quite the amazing coincidence it appears at first sight.).

It was also at this time that she shortened her first name to Barbra to make it more distinctive. Ellison also caught number 661, but kept it for himself with Barry's blessing. She originally had wanted to be an actress, and appeared in a number of Off-Off-Broadway productions, including one with then-aspiring actress Joan Rivers, but when her boyfriend Barry Dennen helped her shape a club act — first performed in a gay bar in Manhattan's Greenwich Village in 1960 — she became a big success as a singer. He hit his 661st home run at the same venue the next day, April 13, placing him in outright third behind Babe Ruth (714) and Hank Aaron (755). Following a music competition, she became a nightclub singer in her teens. Larry Ellison (not the CEO of Oracle Corporation) caught the home run and returned it to Barry.
. On April 12, 2004, Bonds hit his 660th home run, tying him with his godfather Willie Mays for 3rd on the all-time career home run list in a game against the Milwaukee Brewers at SBC Park.

She was educated at Beis Yakov School and then famed Erasmus Hall High School, where she graduated fourth in her class, and overlapped by a year future collaborator Neil Diamond. The new regulations also banned hitters from using hard protective gear apart from helmets (e.g., hard elbow or chest guards), which enabled them to get closer to the plate. This criticism, many speculate, led to a lifelong insecurity about her appearance, despite enormous success in every facet of show business. Because of Bonds and others like Mo Vaughn, in 2001 Major League Baseball instructed umpires to call a slightly different strike zone, calling more high inside pitches strikes. Her well-intentioned mother did not encourage her daughter to pursue a show business career, opining that Barbara was not attractive enough. Bonds is among the power hitters who "crowd the plate": standing in such a way that his body is almost over the plate (and thus close to the strike zone). Her father died when she was only 15 months old, and she had a lifelong turbulent relationship with her stepfather. The other two members are José Canseco and Alex Rodriguez.

She was born Barbara Joan Streisand in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York then moved to another area in Brooklyn. In addition, in 1996 Bonds became the second of the three current members of the so called 40-40 club: 40 home runs and 40 stolen bases in one season. . With 633 career home runs at the time, Bonds became the first 500-500 player in baseball history, already the only member of the 400-400 club.
. By chance, his ailing father Bobby was in attendance that night. Barbra Streisand (born April 24, 1942) is an iconic American singer, theatre and film actress, composer, and film producer and director. Bonds later scored the winning run.

Tony Special Award (1970). On June 23 2003, Bonds recorded his 500th stolen base in the eleventh inning of a game against the Los Angeles Dodgers at Pacific Bell Park. Funny Girl (1964), musical - Tony Nomination for Best Leading Actress in a Musical. He had stolen his 400th base on July 26, 1997 against the Pittsburgh Pirates at Candlestick Park. I Can Get It for You Wholesale (1962), musical - Tony Nomination for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical. Bonds became the first 400-400 player (400 home runs and 400 stolen bases) on August 23, 1998, when he hit home run number 400 off of Florida's Kirt Ojala. He has been named to 13 National League All-Star teams: 1990, 1992-1998, 2000-2004.

Bonds' eight Gold Glove awards as an outfielder are the third-most ever for that position. The Giants would lose the World Series that year to the Anaheim Angels, four games to three. During the 2002 season, Bonds became the fourth man to hit 600 career home runs, and also set the record for most home runs hit in a single post-season (8). He was also second in the voting for the award twice: in 1991 to Terry Pendleton of the Atlanta Braves, and in 2000 to then-teammate Jeff Kent.

He is the first player in history to be MVP in four or even three consecutive years, and no other player has won the award more than three times. Bonds has been voted the National League's Most Valuable Player a record seven times, in 1990, 1992, 1993, 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2004. He also broke two of his own records: OPS, with 1.422, and on-base percentage with .609 - the only time a player has bettered .600 over a full season. In 2004, he won his second batting title with a .362 average.

He also won the National League batting title with a .370 average, becoming the oldest player to win the honor for the first time. Partly because pitchers tried to "pitch around" him whenever possible, he bettered his own record for walks with 198, which contributed greatly to a .582 on-base percentage, breaking Williams' 1941 record of .551. In 2002, however, he did not repeat his 73-homer feat. Besides the home run record, he set single-season marks for walks (177) and slugging percentage (.863) (topping Ruth's records of 170 and .847, set in 1923 and 1920, respectively).

Some analysts consider Bonds' 2001 performance among the greatest hitting seasons in history. That's frightening." The next year, Bonds set the single-season home run record, hitting 73 to break Mark McGwire's 70-homer mark set in 1998. In Sports Illustrated (June 5, 2000), San Francisco Giant Shawon Dunston said of his teammate Bonds, "He's not going to hit 70 homers, but he believes he can. His aunt Rosie Bonds finished 8th in the Women's 80-meter hurdles (Extended to 100-meter hurdles in 1971) at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo,Japan.

Baseball Hall of Famer Willie Mays is his godfather; Reggie Jackson, another Hall of Famer, is his uncle. Bonds' speed and power in his early and middle years recalled his father's abilities. In 1993, he left the Pirates to sign as a free agent with the Giants, for whom his father had played the first seven years of his career. He began his major league career in 1986 with the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Although he was immediately drafted by the San Francisco Giants, Bonds chose to go to college first, playing baseball and earning a degree at Arizona State University in criminal justice. The son of former All-Star Bobby Bonds, Barry Bonds graduated in 1982 from Junipero Serra High School (San Mateo, Calif.), excelling in baseball, basketball and football. . However, he is the focus of a raging debate in the baseball world, centering on two questions: has he had help in the form of illegal performance-improving drugs, and if so, to what degree, if any, does the use of these drugs account for his accomplishments? This debate has been further fueled by reports of testimony given in the investigation of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative scandal.

He has won eight Gold Glove Awards for defensive excellence. He is the only player in history to have hit at least 400 home runs and stolen at least 400 bases, as well as the only player in history to hit 500 homeruns and steal 500 bases. He is generally considered among the greatest players of all time, and has won a record seven MVP awards; for those who view baseball through the prism of sabermetrics, he, Babe Ruth, and Ted Williams are the top three hitters. He holds the record for most homers in a season with 73 and is third on the career list with 708.

Barry Lamar Bonds (born July 24, 1964 in Riverside, California) is a left fielder in Major League Baseball for the San Francisco Giants; he is most famous for his home run hitting.