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Bonds made S.F. success possible.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

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| July 01, 2001 | Peterson, Gary | COPYRIGHT 2001 Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

SAN FRANCISCO _ Barry Bonds knelt down and pressed his hands into wet cement on what used to be a rotting pier. Later he held a news conference flanked by the men who managed him at Serra High School and with the Pittsburgh Pirates, chatting easily in what was once a crumbling warehouse.

Then he went out and took batting practice in the still of a breathtaking San Francisco afternoon, banging baseballs off a red brick facade that might have been a pool house in Atherton or a bunch of chimneys on Tahoe's north shore had Bonds not signed a free-agent contract with the Giants in December 1992.

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