Bobby Bonilla

Bobby Bonilla fascinates me as a case study in how baseball remembers its players. On pure merit, he was one of the game's most feared hitters in the late 1980s and early 1990s, a genuine force on those contending Pittsburgh Pirates teams. Yet his cultural footprint today rests largely on a deferred contract that resurfaces every summer as a holiday of sorts. I think that is unfair and wonderful at once: the Bronx kid who made it big now enjoys a strange immortality that most Hall of Famers would envy. Few careers illustrate better that legacy and statistics are entirely different currencies.

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Name (English)

Bobby Bonilla

Name (Japanese)

ボビー・ボニーヤ

Reading

ぼびー・ぼにーや

Born

February 23, 1963 (age 63)

Origin

The Bronx, New York, United States

Occupation

baseball player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Rabbit

High school

Herbert H. Lehman High School

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby%20Bonilla
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9C%E3%83%93%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9C%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A4
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3246427

Tags

• New York
• baseball player

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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