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How many out of all Barry Bonds' home runs have been Inside the Park?

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Tony,

I cannot give you a complete answer, but I can tell you that out of the 292 dingers he hit in his first ten seasons, 1986-95, only one was inside the park, and that was in his second season. I think it would be safe to extrapolate from there that during the balance of his career, he might have hit maybe one more . . . but more likely he never hit another one.

Whoa, Tony. I was mistaken. I just discovered from another source that through May of 2006, Bonds had 3 inside-the-park homers. I feel fairly safe in saying that's probably what he finished with. I guess the juice he shot up with helped foot speed as well as bat speed.

http://baseballanalysts.com/archives/2006/05/barry_bonds_hom_1.php

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