High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Walter Franklin Bond (October 19, 1937 — September 14, 1967) was an American professional baseball player who appeared in six Major League Baseball seasons between 1960 and 1967 for the Cleveland Indians, Houston Colt .45s/Astros and Minnesota Twins. He played the last five seasons of his 11-year professional career after being diagnosed with leukemia while serving in the United States Army in 1962. The disease finally took Bond`s life in the closing weeks of the 1967 baseball season — a year during which he had made the Twins` roster coming out of spring training.