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.

Roberto Martin Antonio Bonilla (, born February 23, 1963) is an American former professional baseball third baseman and outfielder who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1986 to 2001. Bonilla was one of MLB's best batters and overall top players in the late 1980s and early 1990s with powerful hitting strength, as well as a part of the highly successful and pennant contending Pittsburgh Pirates organization ar…

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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)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Rabbit

Origin

The Bronx, New York, United States

Blood type

Private

Height

Private

Agency

Private

Occupation

baseball player

Elementary school

Private

Junior high

Private

High school

Herbert H. Lehman High School

University

Private

Spouse

Private

Children

Private

Parents

Private

Siblings

Private

Motto

Private

• 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

Tags

• New York
• baseball player

Last updated

2026-06-10

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.