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By Jeremy Kahn

SAN FRANCISCO — In honor of the San Francisco Giants’ 60th anniversary of moving to San Francisco, the team is giving Barry Bonds the highest honor that they give to any player that wears the uniform.

Bonds, who retired after the 2007 season, will have his number 25 retired on August 12, as the Giants face the team that drafted Bonds out of Arizona State with the sixth pick in the 1985 Major League Baseball Draft, the Pittsburgh Pirates.

In 15 years with the Giants, Bonds hit 586 home runs, the second most in team history, behind his godfather Willie Mays (646 from 1951-1952, 1954-1972), as he helped lead the Giants to the National League Western Division Championship in 1997, 2000 and 2003.

The Giants also made the postseason in 2002, when they made it all the way to the World Series as the Wild Card team. However, the Giants came up one game short of their ultimate goal, when the Anaheim Angels took Game Seven for their only World Series Championship in team history.

While wearing the Orange and Black for those 15 years, Bonds also won the NL MVP on five different occasions in 1993, 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004, Bonds also won five Gold Gloves in 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997 and 1998.

Bonds won the Silver Slugger Award nine times, as he took home the award in 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004.

The most feared hitter of this generation, Bonds also won batting titles in 2002 and 2004, and led the National League in home runs on two different occasions, the first time was in 1993, when he 46 home runs and helped the Giants to 103 wins on the season and in 2001, when he hit a major-league record 73 home runs.

He joins Orlando Cepeda, Juan Marichal, Mays, Willie McCovey and Gaylord Perry as the sixth member of the San Francisco Giants to get his number retired. Bill Terry, Carl Hubbell, Monte Irvin and Mel Ott also have their numbers retired after Hall of Fame careers when the Giants played in New York.

Christy Mathewson and John McGraw are also honored by the Giants, as the two are honored with plaques, as their careers pre-dated numbers.