SAN FRANCISCO -- Barry Bonds' personal shopper testified Thursday that she saw his trainer inject him in the navel during the 2002 season.
Kathy Hoskins, who also used to pack Bonds' clothes before trips, said at his trial that she didn't know what substance weight trainer Greg Anderson shot into baseball's all-time home run leader. That point would be immaterial, though, because one of the perjury counts against Bonds is based on his testimony to a 2003 grand jury that he had never been injected by anybody other than a doctor.
Hoskins, sister of former Bonds friend and business partner Steve Hoskins, said she frequently saw Bonds and Anderson go into an office in Bonds' house and emerge a minute or two later.
One day, however, "Greg came into the bedroom. I was packing clothes,'' she told the court. "Barry's like, 'Let's do it right here.' Greg was like, 'Here?' And then Barry said, 'This is Katie, she's my girl. She won't say anything.'''
Hoskins said Bonds pulled up his shirt and, "Then Greg shot him in the belly button.''
That's typically where shots of human growth hormone are administered.
Asked about the injection, Hoskins said, "It was a regular, normal-sized syringe. … I didn't say anything. Barry said, 'Got to have a little something, something before I go on the road. They can't detect it, they can't catch it.'''
The defense tried to portray Kathy Hoskins as tailoring her story to match or support Steve's, who had a falling out with Bonds in 2003. Steve Hoskins, whom Bonds accused of stealing from him and forging his signature on memorabilia, testified last week that he had seen Anderson with a syringe that had a needle at Bonds' spring training home.'
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Kathy Hoskins, who also used to pack Bonds' clothes before trips, said at his trial that she didn't know what substance weight trainer Greg Anderson shot into baseball's all-time home run leader. That point would be immaterial, though, because one of the perjury counts against Bonds is based on his testimony to a 2003 grand jury that he had never been injected by anybody other than a doctor.
Hoskins, sister of former Bonds friend and business partner Steve Hoskins, said she frequently saw Bonds and Anderson go into an office in Bonds' house and emerge a minute or two later.
One day, however, "Greg came into the bedroom. I was packing clothes,'' she told the court. "Barry's like, 'Let's do it right here.' Greg was like, 'Here?' And then Barry said, 'This is Katie, she's my girl. She won't say anything.'''
Hoskins said Bonds pulled up his shirt and, "Then Greg shot him in the belly button.''
That's typically where shots of human growth hormone are administered.
Asked about the injection, Hoskins said, "It was a regular, normal-sized syringe. … I didn't say anything. Barry said, 'Got to have a little something, something before I go on the road. They can't detect it, they can't catch it.'''
The defense tried to portray Kathy Hoskins as tailoring her story to match or support Steve's, who had a falling out with Bonds in 2003. Steve Hoskins, whom Bonds accused of stealing from him and forging his signature on memorabilia, testified last week that he had seen Anderson with a syringe that had a needle at Bonds' spring training home.'
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