Thank you for saying this. As a believer in the Powers of Redemption I agree. It is also the right thing to do and would have a positive impact on those young people who think he's a hero and are tempted to find a chemical fix for their sports success.
I was just reading today's sports page about the case of Mark McGuire. He's evidently waiting for the statute of limitations to run out (five years). This a year after the Mitchell commission got his word that he would do all he could to stem the tide of steroid use in sports and after McGuire directly heard testimony of a Dad who lost his high-school son to suicide linked to steroid use. These sports "hero's" -- including those featured on Wheaties boxes --have a higher responsibility to "come clean." If they don't they bear the consequences of the harm they have done, the hopes they have dashed, the cynicism they have caused.
Funny you should mention McGuire. I have four pristine Wheatie's boxes of him in my garage. I thought they would be worth something some day so I have hung onto them for about ten years now. I'll probably just toss them in the trash.
I'm a St. Louis Cardinal's fan from way back to the days of Stan Musial and Enos "Country" Slaughter and later Bob Gibson. I lived and died when they won and lost. And none of them used steroids either.
It is a sorry mess in professional sports today.