Bonds retains desire to continue playing career

Controversial home-run king Barry Bonds said he has no intention of retiring and still hopes to sign with a team despite steroid allegations and perjury charges hanging over his head.“I’m not going to retire. I don’t think that’s going to happen,” Bonds, 43, said in an interview on MLB.com on Wednesday. “I’m working out, I’m training. If my phone rings, it rings, if it don’t, it don’t.

Despite setting baseball’s all-time home run record last season, pushing his career total to 762, there has been little interest in signing the free agent slugger, who faces perjury and obstruction of justice charges stemming from an investigation into the BALCO steroid scandal.

The government case alleges Bonds lied in 2003 when he told a federal grand jury investigating the BALCO lab behind closed doors that he had never knowingly used performance-enhancing drugs. In December 2007, he pleaded not guilty.

The seven-time National League MVP said he is still hoping to sign with a new team for the 2008 season after the San Francisco Giants, for whom he has played since 1993, did not renew his contract.

Bonds retains desire to continue playing career | Sports | Reuters