Looks like Bud Selig – and for that matter the Baseball Writers of America – are once again proven hypocrites.
Selig wants to essentially punish those accused of using steroids by wiping their records from the books, or at the very least noting their numbers with asterisks. Meanwhile as we saw in the recent Hall of Fame voting, the BBWA continues to shun Mark McGwire, even though a few years ago everyone agreed he has Hall worthy numbers.
Meanwhile, there already is at least one player in the Hall of Fame who openly used steroids.
Jim “Pud” Galvin
During his career Pud used the “elixir of Brown -Sequard” – testoterone drained from the gonads of an animal – before games. The use was reported in the Washington Post in 1889:
“If there still be doubting Thomases who concede no virtue of the elixir,
they are respectfully referred to Galvin’s record in yesterday’s
Boston-Pittsburgh game. It is the best proof yet furnished of the value of
the discovery.”
And it worked. Pud was the first 300 game winner in major league history, and was selected to the Hall of Fame in 1965.
So the door has already been opened. Put in McGwire, and when thei times come, put in Sosa, Clemens, Bonds, and A-Rod. Time to move on.
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