The date was 6/27/03 and the time was 8:40 PM when Barry Bonds hit his 634th career homerun into McCovey Cove. It was immediately retrieved by master ball hawk, Thomas Hoynes. This is the baseball and it has been in Hoynes' possession since he retrieved it from the water. The homerun occurred in the bottom of the sixth inning vs. the A's. All of this has been recorded by Hoynes on the back of one of his business cards and in an affidavit that he signed.