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Why stop at 90 go for 120! Listen if Bonds had played in Griffith Stadium, the home of the Washington Senators for 60 years if he hit 35 HR's in his peak
year he'd have a statue erected in his honor. In 1945 the entire Senator team hit exactly 1 homerun in their 77 home games & that was an inside the park homerun.
AT&T park is larger than most parks in use today but compared to the Parks Ruth, DiMaggio, Foxx & Hornsby played in it is a Fishbowl.
You should know that in Bonds 73 HR season Bonds hit more HR's at home that you state 'is the hardest stadium for a left-handed hitter to hit homeruns'
than he hit on the road so maybe AT&T is not as cavernous as you think. He hit 40 HR in what is considered the CF area that year. In the 30's went Foxx,
Greenberg, Mize & DiMag were the HR's bashers no player ever hit even 10 HR's in what is considered the CF area, the fences in center were to far away.
Yankee Stadium where you say Bonds would have hit 90 HR's up until 1976 was 461 ft. the CF. Bonds only hit 29 HR's the the RF area, 40 in CF & 4 to LF.Clem's Baseball ~ Stadium dimensions
San Francisco is also one of the most humid cities in the United States. San Francisco has a dense marine layer due to the city being so close to sea level. That's why so many hitters strike out in cities with a large marine layer.
Again, look it up. It is based on science.