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Posted By: Chris Counts

I look forward to rereading The Glory Of Their Times, which features first-hand accounts by Joe Wood and Fred Snodgrass of the 1912 World Series. I agree with the contention that baseball has weathered far greater storms than the steroid scandal. Or should I say the Bonds scandal. Or should I say the scandal that gives Bonds haters an excuse to blame the whole mess on the Giants' surly slugger. You'd think from reading about the whole thing that Bonds is the only guy in baseball guilty of using steroids. Which certainly isn't the case. Like the Black Sox episode, somebody has to take the fall, and instead of going after the powers-that-be in baseball, the guys who let this thing happen on their watch, it's easier to find a guy like Bonds and rake him over the coals. Sounds like history repeating itself. Bonds might have the last laugh, though. Eighty-seven years after the 1919 World Series, cards of the long-maligned Shoeless Joe Jackson routinely outsell those of Cobb ande Speaker, who were clearly as good or better players than the infamous Black Sox slugger ...