Los Angeles ? It was steroids awareness day at Dodger Stadium, and it had nothing to do with Barry Bonds.

Approximately 100 Little Leaguers were at the ballpark before Thursday night’s game against Bonds’ San Francisco Giants for a two-hour session led by Los Angeles center fielder Juan Pierre, hitting coach Bill Mueller and former Dodger Lou Johnson. The boys and girls, ages 12 to 17, received a Dodger goodie bag.

“I’m the one who can tell you if you work hard you can make it,” Pierre said. “I’m not that big. I haven’t hit a home run in 600 at-bats, but I use what I can. I’m a speed guy, so I use my legs.”

The 43-year-old Bonds has hit 754 home runs in his career, one short of Hank Aaron’s record. There are suspicions the slugger’s pursuit was fueled by steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs, which he long has denied knowingly taking.

Later in the ballpark, fans were more vocal leading up to the series finale than the previous two nights.

“Hey, Barry, where’s Greg Anderson? Where is he, Barry?” one man hollered from the sky-high seats during batting practice in reference to the slugger’s incarcerated trainer. “How much are you paying him? We don’t hate you because you’re a cheater, it’s because you’re a jerk.”

“HGH!” another yelled from way up in right field. That’s the abbreviated version of human growth hormone – one of the substances Bonds allegedly took.

In their book “Game of Shadows,” released last year, authors Lance Williams and Mark Fainaru-Wada wrote that Bonds started using steroids because he was jealous of the attention paid to Mark McGwire’s home run race with Sammy Sosa in 1998.

The awareness event, held in conjunction with the Taylor Hooton Foundation and the Professional Baseball Strength and Conditioning Coaches Society, had been rescheduled from its original date, June 29.

When asked whether he thought Bonds had used steroids, Pierre responded: “I don’t know. I’m staying away from that one.”