JOLIET ILLINOIS- Unlike the subzero temperatures outside today, the JackHammers front office is over heating with excitement as General Manager, Jamie Toole, begins talks with Barry Bond’s agent, Jeff Borris of the Beverly Hills Sports Council.
Just one day after Borris made a statement to the San Francisco Chronicle, pronouncing Bond’s baseball career dead. Toole reached out to the former big leaguer representative in hopes to re-erect Bond’s dying career.
“It is our understanding that Barry is interested in continuing his playing career” said JackHammers General Manager Jamie Toole. “With two major league organizations within 35 miles of Joliet, we feel that the JackHammers would be a perfect fit for Bonds at this stage in his career.”
Bonds had a 22 year big league career, of which he spent 3 years playing along side current JackHammers Special Assistant to the General Manager / Baseball Operations, John Cangelosi in Pittsburgh. Other accomplishments include hitting a record high 762 homeruns, appearing in 14 All-Star Games, and winning 7 National League MVP titles. But sadly it is steroids that Bonds is remember for these days, as portrayed in the 2006 book Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO, and the Steroids Scandal that Rocked Professional Sports by Mark Fainaru-Wada, Lance Williams.
