Aaron's home runs, in the friendly Atlanta park:
1966: 44, led league
1967: 39, led league
1968: 29
1969: 44
1970: 38
1971: 47
1972: 34
1973: 40
1974: 20
Highlighting his age 34 season in 1968 (the year of the pitcher, at that) as a baseline to then discredit later years does not make sense, it was a down year for him, which happens in every long-term players career. Why don't we use his age 32, 33 or 35 seasons?
Perhaps Aaron used something that gave an unfair advantage, but this is not a good or fair argument, it's cherry picking his worst and best rates, ignoring the plethora of seasons close to his best rate, and then pretending the cherry picked lower number is his "normal" somehow by which to discredit the higher figure.
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