It’s Time to Reconsider Barry Bonds for the Hall of Fame [View all]
Years ago, we posed a question about a question, wondering how the court of public opinion, along with the guardians of baseball, might have dealt with Barry Bonds had he answered affirmatively when a federal grand jury asked him in December 2003 about his use of performance-enhancing drugs.
What if Bonds, we asked, had said he had surrendered to steroid use because it had practically become an institutionalized necessity, the key to unlocking the door to statistical and lifestyle riches?
And that his involvement was influenced by nothing less sacred than a pursuit of the American Dream, all pumped up.
In 2006, Fay Vincent, the former baseball commissioner, told us: “We are a terrifically forgiving country, in part because we have such a low standard of morality. But I’ve thought about this question a lot, and I believe that people would have forgiven Barry Bonds.”
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