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...When McGwire and Sosa were pursuing Maris's record in 1998, Maris Jr. appeared at games to celebrate both players. But that was before baseball's steroid scandal raised questions about their achievements...
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 summer of 1998, followed by Barry Bonds' record-setting 2001 season of 73 home runs. But all three have been dogged by suspicion of using steroids or other performance-enhancing drugs, and there have been calls to restore Maris as the title holder...
...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...
...everybody, Barry has the biggest black cloud," said Maris, Jr. 47, who lives in Gainesville, Fla., where he owns a Budweiser brewery. "At least when McGwire did it, nobody was really thinking like that. Baseball and the whole country were behind him and it sucked everybody in. It was great for baseball...
...since a new book detailing the surly slugger's alleged steroid abuse is scheduled to hit stores in time for opening day. In Game of Shadows, two San Francisco Chronicle reporters write that Bonds, 41, first tried performance-enhancing drugs in 1998 out of jealousy toward heavier hitters Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa. Bonds has denied knowingly using steroids, and his lawyer questions the book's credibility. But baseball commissioner Bud Selig says he will read it, and congressional investigators will too. "There's more to life than baseball," Bonds said at Spring training. Maybe...