Remembering Bobby

This is a shot of Bobby Bonds in better days.

Bobby Bonds played seven seasons with the Giants -- his best year was probably 1973 -- and then played the next seven seasons with seven different teams. Josh Wilker at Cardboard Gods has an excellent recap of the Bonds-Murcer trade and what it meant at the time along with its launching Bonds as a vagabond, highlighted by some non-Giant Bonds cards from the era. He starts by quoting the part of the lyrics from the song "Man of Constant Sorrow," which got some recognition from the fine film "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" Here's the whole song --

I am a man of constant sorrow

I've seen trouble all my day.

I bid farewell to old Kentucky

The place where I was born and raised.

(The place where he was born and raised)

For six long years I've been in trouble

No pleasures here on earth I found

For in this world I'm bound to ramble

I have no friends to help me now.

(He has no friends to help him now)

It's fare thee well my old lover

I never expect to see you again

For I'm bound to ride that northern railroad

Perhaps I'll die upon this train.

(Perhaps he'll die upon this train)

You can bury me in some deep valley

For many years where I may lay

Then you may learn to love another

While I am sleeping in my grave.

(While he is sleeping in his grave)

Maybe your friends think I'm just a stranger

My face you'll never see no more.

But there is one promise that is given

I'll meet you on God's golden shore.

(He'll meet you on God's golden shore)