June, 1985
Bonds is selected by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first round (sixth pick overall) of the free-agent draft.
1986
Bonds leads all National League rookies with 16 homers, 36 steals, 48 RBIs and 65 walks in 113 games.
July 12, 1990
Bonds hits his 100th career homer.
April 27, 1996
Bonds hits two homers, the 300th and 301st of his career.
Aug. 23, 1998
Bonds hits his 400th career homer.
April 17, 2001
Bonds hits his 500th career homer against the Dodgers.
Sept. 9, 2001
Bonds hits three home runs in a game for the second time this season, giving him 63 for the year, passing Roger Maris’ mark of 61 for left-handed hitters.
Dec. 4, 2003
Bonds testifies to a federal grand jury that he used a clear substance and a cream given to him by his personal trainer, but didn’t know they were steroids, according to transcripts.
Sept. 17, 2004
Bonds hits his 700th career homer.
March 7, 2006
“Game of Shadows,” a book by reporters Mark Fainaur-Wada and Lance Williams, says Barry Bonds used a vast array of performance-enhancing drugs for at least five seasons beginning in 1998.
April 14, 2006
Sources say a federal grand jury is investigating whether Bonds committed perjury when he testified in 2003 that he never knowingly used steroids.
Aug. 7, 2007
Bonds hits a 435-foot home run, number 756, in San Francisco. It breaks the career home run record formerly held by Hank Aaron.
Nov. 15, 2007
Bonds is indicted for perjury and obstruction of justice, charged with lying when he told a federal grand jury that he did not knowingly use performance-enhancing drugs.
