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fkwHe is a man who hits a baseball with a wooden bat like all before him has. It may have been an advantage it may not have. The guy is still hitting HRs every 7-8 times up, even at 42.... Why because he is that good. The records will stand. Everyone has cheated/had advantages in baseball in some form for 140 years.
The list is long and every era had advantages/disadvantages.....everything from no night games, stealing signs, higher mounds, greenies, DH, corked bats, spitballs, batting helmets, steroids, short fences, elbow/shin guards, no negro players, webbed gloves, maple bats, vasoline, infield fly rule, astroturf, overhand pitch, coke, pinetar, 162 game schedule, 60'6", sunglasses, clean white baseballs after every pitch, domes, batting gloves, scuffing up balls, 5 balls is a walk, ...etc., etc.
The game naturally has changed over the last 137 years.
The way to correct it is to test for steroids and end it now and they seem to be doing the right thing. Just like outlawing the spitter, making the pitching distance 60'6", and letting Jackie Robinson in the Majors corrected those situations.