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Roger Maris, Jr., remains adamant in his belief that his father is baseball's rightful home run king. The former Yankee slugger's record of 61 homers in 1961 stood for 37 years, until both Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa passed it (with 70 and 66 homers respectively) in the...
> "What Mark [McGwire] did was phenomenal," the younger Maris said in an interview with TIME. "What Barry [Bonds] did was incredible, too. But it appears they had help. If that's what happened, then it's hard to compare apples and oranges."
When the stakes got higher, Bonds ramped up his drug use, the authors say. Bonds started using steroids after the 1998 season, when Mark McGwire, another suspected user, hit 70 home runs, breaking Rogers Maris? record and mesmerizing the nation. Bonds allegedly dismissed McGwire?s accomplishments- ?They?re just letting...
His lifetime figures are impressively large: 2,211 hits, 1,555 RBIs, 521 home runs (including 18 grand slams), 6 ft. 4 in. of height--and now.810 on the Hall of Fame ballot. That number represents 346 out of a possible 425 votes and makes Willie McCovey only the 16th...
But I must, since this early-season ramble is about the Red Sox and, therefore, about baseball-and, therefore again, about steroids. Everything about baseball is about steroids right now. My take is: I'm very glad the secret is out, and I hope things change. I can't understand...