San Francisco Giants majority owner Sue Burns dead at 58

Giants majority owner Sue Burns dead at 58

SAN FRANCISCO — Sue Burns, a part owner of the San Francisco Giants who was close friends with home run king Barry Bonds, has died. She was 58.

Burns died early Sunday of complications from cancer, the team said. She was diagnosed with the disease July 10 and missed Jonathan Sanchez’s no-hitter for the Giants that night — a rare absence from the ballpark.

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.