There's a generation of baseball fans growing up around the Bay Area who experienced the joy of three World Series titles in five years during their formative years.
Many fans fall in love with the game at an early age and for young Giants fans born in the 2000s, it's hard to imagine a more rewarding viewing experience than seeing a team lift a trophy three times before they graduate high school.
In a special episode of the SF Giants Gameday podcast, beat reporter Kerry Crowley and KNBR host Adam Copeland look back at how they fell in love with baseball and the years they spent watching Barry Bonds reach new milestones at Oracle Park.
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Crowley and Copeland both grew up in San Francisco and became lifelong baseball fans at a time when Bonds was climbing up the all-time home run leaderboard. Too young to know the science behind steroids and too mesmerized to turn away from the television when Bonds came up to the plate, Crowley and Copeland witnessed his career from the perspective of Little League players who wanted to grow up and hit homers.
In this episode of the podcast, the duo discusses their favorite Bonds homers, the most significant home runs they witnessed in person and how they look back on Bonds' legacy now that they've gained new perspective on his controversial career.
