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Posted By: howard

An asterisk would be meaningless to me and many others as well. No matter what the "official" record books say, I, like millions of other fans, am capable of deciding to my own satisfaction who is the legitimate holder of any particular record or title. It's true in every sport. For example, despite what the record books say I know that Roy Jones, Jr. earned a gold medal in boxing in the '88 Olympics; I know that the USA beat the USSR in the gold medal basketball game in '72 and I know that Mark Gastineau holds the single season sack record because Brett Farve gifted a fake sack to Michael Strahan in 2001.

While I believe that the steroid aided stats should stand I still regard Hank Aaron as the HR King until he is supplanted by some clean kid several decades down the line.