SAN FRANCISCO — Tears streaming from her eyes, Barry Bonds’ former personal shopper became the first and only one of the government’s 23 witnesses at his federal trial to say she saw the all-time home run leader getting an injection from his trainer.
Kathy Hoskins was the first eyewitness to testify that Bonds’ personal trainer — Greg Anderson, who was later convicted of dealing steroids — injected the slugger. She said Thursday the scene unfolded at Bonds’ Bay Area home in 2002. As part of her job, she packed the baseball star’s clothes for road trips.
Anderson came into the bedroom as she was filling a suitcase. “Barry was like, ‘Let’s do it right here,’ ” Hoskins testified, using a tissue to repeatedly dab at her eyes and brow.
” ‘This is Kathy. That’s my girl. She ain’t going to say nothing to nobody,’ ” she quoted Bonds as saying. “So Greg shot him in the belly button.”
Hoskins said she didn’t ask about the injection, but Bonds volunteered that it was “a little something, something for when I go on the road. You can’t detect it. You can’t catch it.”
Dr. Don Catlin, former head of the UCLA Olympic Analytical Laboratory, then testified about his 2006 discovery of Tetrahydrogestrinone (THG), the designed steroid known as “the clear.” Bonds’ urine sample, which was negative for steroids in baseball’s 2003 survey test, was positive for THG three years later after Catlin’s lab developed a test and also for the female fertility drug clomiphene.
The government says it likely will rest its case after Catlin steps down Monday.
