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jay behrensPaul, you obviously are not member of SABR. If you were, you would have read ad nasium about what Bonds did or did not say. The one thing that every seems to pretty much agree on is that he did NOT admit to using steroids. Much of what was reported in the initial SF Chronical report was the reporter wanted people to think, not what was actually testified to. I wish I had kept all the SABR posts about this, but reposting them here would bore pretty much everyone.
In a nutshell, Bonds admited to nothing illegal and all you holier than thou fans need to get off your high horse and realize that players ahve cheated since the game started. If you are going remove Bonds for supposedly cheating with steroids, then you better remove every player from the post WW2 era, Mantle, Williams, Mays, Aaron, etc because they were all using "greenies" while they played. Players have aways cheated, and always will, no matter what the rules are. Get over it.
Tim, if you go with only players you've seen, how can you leave off Will Clark?
t206king, according to your list, all the greatest hitters in the game played before 1937. Do you honestly believe this?
For all the collectors of 19c material, there is a serious lack of 19c players. Aside from my nod to Brouthers, only Delahanty and Anson got nods from one person. Do you all think that there is no worthy 19c hitter?
JAy
I've just reached Upper Lower Class. I am now officially a babe magnet for poor chicks.