Sooner or later, Bonds would have gotten tired of eating dirt, or having bruised ribs.
There were a lot of pitchers back then who wouldn't have put up with that crap, but that wasn't the Bud Selig era.
He was the ultimate source of equal opportunity intimidation. He hated everyone with a bat in his hands white, black, brown or shades in between.
Who else but Bob Uecker to capture the essence of Gibby:
Now Uecker was of course, a borderline major leaguer and the Cardinals backup catcher, a real nobody compared to the mega-star that was Gibson. He drew the catching assignment of the intimidator Gibson on a day when Tim McCarver was resting. He was pretty much told to let Gibson call his own game:
“I once was catching Bob Gibson and went out to the mound,” Uecker said. “He glared at me and said, ‘What do you want?’ I said, ‘Nothing, I was just going out to see Curt Flood in center field.’”