I went to go look up a picture of this while reading your book. It's a great book and so sad. You have one of the most sane takes on steriods in baseball because some people like to stick their head in the sand about the long history of alcohol and drug use in MLB and steriods simply being a facet and continuation of that.
Harvey, thank you for the kind words! It meant a lot to receive and read them.
Regarding PEDs, exactly. Players have been looking for an edge forever, and just because the drugs in the 1990s-early 2000s were a little better at helping guys hit home runs doesn't make that era any more tainted, or the players any more compromised, than other eras. We just need to judge eras against themselves. Hitting 40 in the 1960s meant more than hitting 40 in the 1990s. Just as Hack Wilson's 191 RBI in 1930, while great, came during a lively season when the league batted over .300.
Everything in context. Thank you for reading and for the comment!
I went to go look up a picture of this while reading your book. It's a great book and so sad. You have one of the most sane takes on steriods in baseball because some people like to stick their head in the sand about the long history of alcohol and drug use in MLB and steriods simply being a facet and continuation of that.
Harvey, thank you for the kind words! It meant a lot to receive and read them.
Regarding PEDs, exactly. Players have been looking for an edge forever, and just because the drugs in the 1990s-early 2000s were a little better at helping guys hit home runs doesn't make that era any more tainted, or the players any more compromised, than other eras. We just need to judge eras against themselves. Hitting 40 in the 1960s meant more than hitting 40 in the 1990s. Just as Hack Wilson's 191 RBI in 1930, while great, came during a lively season when the league batted over .300.
Everything in context. Thank you for reading and for the comment!
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