SAN FRANCISCO (AP)-Sue Burns, the majority owner of the San Francisco Giants who was close friends with home run king Barry Bonds, has died. She was 58.
Burns died late Saturday night of complications from cancer, team spokesman Jim Moorehead said. She was recently diagnosed with the disease.
Giants players and coaches had their annual picnic with Burns at her suburban Atherton home on July 8. Always dressed in orange, Burns was a fixture at the ballpark in the lower-box seats near San Francisco's dugout.
Her husband, Harmon, died in 2006 at age 61. The Burns family was largely responsible for keeping the Giants in the Bay Area in 1992. Bonds arrived the following year and went on to become baseball's career home run leader.