- Barry Bonds, Major League Baseball's all-time home run leader whose suspicion of doping has kept him out of the Hall of Fame, has been hired as batting coach for the Miami Marlins, the National League club said on Friday. Bonds, 51, in his first stint as a major league coach, joins the staff of Don Mattingly, the former manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers who recently signed to become the Marlins' skipper. One of the most feared hitters in baseball during his career, Bonds leads the all-time home run list with 762 and hit an MLB-record 73 homers in 2001.