Bonds’ former trainer, Greg Anderson, was arrested in 2003 for supplying steroids to professional athletes. Bonds’ career has been marred with alleged PED use. The current mark is held by Barry Bonds’ 2001 campaign where he hit 73 homeruns in his 37th season. The question now becomes whether Stanton should be considered the single season home run king if he breaks Maris’ mark of 61. As of today, he has 54 with more than enough power left in his massive, 6’6, 240 lb frame. Today, one of those new home run hitters, Miami Marlins Giancarlo Stanton, is flirting with hitting 60 home runs this season. A new sprout of home run hitters have entered the sport, and we seem to have moved on. Players from the past who were caught have been publicly shamed. Today, baseball is in an almost post Cold War era of its fight against PEDs. In a sport where numbers and records are so important, the steroid era of baseball muddy up the numbers and put a metaphorical asterisk next to the many records that fell during that span. Between 1990-2005, twelve different players hit at least 50 home runs in a season, some multiple times, while that feat was only reach by ten players prior to that time. Roger Maris’ single season record of 61 home runs in a season was topped six times by McGwire, Sosa and Bonds. The steroid and PED era in baseball is said to have lasted only about 15-20 years, from the mid ‘80s to the early 2000s, yet it’s affect on the game was clear. Period!” And like Big Willie, he was eventually caught later that year. Curt Schilling was there for some reason (honestly, his name has never been connected with PEDs, so why was he there?) Rafael Palmeiro, doing his best Bill Clinton impression and definitely pointing his finger at the committee and saying, “I have never used steroids. Sosa all of a sudden needed a translator to answer his questions. Mark McGwire, the all-American, home run champion who “saved baseball” in the summer of 1998 when he and Sammy Sosa broke Roger Maris’ single season home run record after the strike of 1994 led to a drop in attendance. The image of the game’s best players like Barry Bonds and Sammy Sosa being grilled by Congress has been cemented in the minds of millions over the image of them being celebrated after a record breaking home run at home plate. It may be hard but think back to 20 when performance enhancing drugs and baseball became forever linked.
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