Slugger Barry Bonds is trying to hit one out of Beverly Park

Perhaps hoping to hit a home run of a different sort, former baseball outfielder Barry Bonds has put his Italian-inspired estate in Beverly Park up for sale at $25 million.

Designed to function both as a place to host largescale events and as a family home, the 17,100-square-foot villa sits beside a circular motor court centered on a multi-tiered fountain. The 1.85 acres of grounds include an outdoor kitchen, a swimming pool with a cabana, a 2,100-square-foot sports court, an olive grove, a lawn and a rose garden.

The interiors feature ceilings as high as 30 feet, a hand-painted wall mural of the Tuscany landscape, limestone columns and Venetian plaster/faux finish walls. Rooms include a walnut-paneled office, a 12-seat theater, a game room, a wine cellar, a gym, seven bedrooms and 13 bathrooms.

Bonds, 48, played for the Pittsburgh Pirates and the San Francisco Giants during a two-decade-plus career that included seven most

valuable player honors. He failed to gain entrance into the Baseball Hall of Fame last month. It was his first year of eligibility after a 2011 conviction for obstruction of justice related to the government’s investigation of steroid use and the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative (BALCO). Bonds is appealing the conviction.

He paid $8.7 million for the property in 2002, public records show. The estate is being offered furnished.

Mauricio Umansky of the Agency is the listing agent.

Scott Halleran Getty Images BARRY BONDS was named most valuable player seven times during his baseball career.

Photog raphs by Clark Dugger ERIC BURDON, a British Invasion singer who sang with the Animals and then the funk band War, has listed his retreat in Joshua Tree for sale at $999,000. The home’s outdoor amenities include a lap pool.

BURDON’S HOUSE sits on 2.5 acres surrounded by native plants and encircled by an adobe wall.

THE COURTYARD-STYLE HOME, built in 2007, has more than 3,200 square feet of living space.