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...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 him do it because he?s a white boy,? he allegedly told his mistress, Kimberly Bell. But he didn?t dismiss McGwire?s hulking physique, and soon connected with Anderson, known for his access to steroids. The authors say that the San Francisco Giants knew of Anderson?s background...
...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 how Mark McGwire was able to look the Maris brothers in the eye back when he was hitting 70, never mind pose with them, smiling. But then, I didn't understand it at the time-knowing what everyone in the sporting press already knew (but couldn't print without proof). I thought...
...were small. What I mean is, Manny and David were physical specimens when they were 11 and 12, and so might have come by their enormous strength in a natural way. You don't have those alarming, Charles Atlas then-and-now photos that you have with Bonds, Giambi, McGwire. But do I think that none of our World Champions has taken steroids? No, I emphatically...
...baseball stars barry bonds and Mark McGwire used illegal steroids, they deserve to be in a Hall of Shame [March 28]. But perhaps one good thing will come from this scandal: a greater appreciation for home-run king Hank Aaron, a man of decency and dignity and a record holder worthy of a child's adulation. Thirty-one years after breaking Babe Ruth's record for most career homers, Aaron still remains in his shadow. How ironic that it might be Bonds' downfall that finally allows Aaron to emerge. It's about time...
...cast McGwire as a lying cheat is grotesque. He has raised a lot of money for worthy causes, and his 1998 race with Sammy Sosa to break Roger Maris' single-season home-run record saved the sport of baseball. Whatever the outcome of the House committee hearings, McGwire will always be a hero...