whats your HOF philosophy???

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Originally Posted by z28jd

Just asking you since you brought up Hank Aaron, who admitted to trying amphetamines once in his career. Do you seriously believe his story? He claimed to have no idea what it was and he only did it once because it made his nervous/anxious. We all know now that the players from the 60's took them quite often and while it didn't have the effect of steroids, it helped them compile stats because they were up for every game, so that is an obvious help. I just didn't like the "peer pressure" and only tried it once story that Aaron concocted. I'm not sure how people just let that go without calling bull.

Not trying to single out Aaron, but he was the one that came out with the crazy story. If someone hit 40 homers at age 39 nowadays, that would send up huge red flags. Since amphetamines are illegal now in the game, you could easily make a case for Ruth still being the home run king, but no one does.

I have long thought there was something fishy about that 1973 Braves team. You have Aaron hitting 40 HR at age 39, Darrell Evans hitting 41 (he also saw a mysterious and significant jump in his power numbers after the age of 37), and Davey Johnson hitting 43, one behind the MLB HR leader for that year, Willie Stargell. Johnson's second highest HR total? 18.