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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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