For decades men have been trying to break The Bambino’s total. The Babe was fueled with hot dogs, booze and babes; so his marks are legit. Maris did his 61 legit and Hank did his total legit.
Bonds is a fraud and he should have been drummed out of baseball; if the figurehead comish’s had any balls.
Just think about how many more home runs he would have hit, if only he had cut down on the smoking, the drinking, and the sex, especially in between the innings. ;)
“The Babe was fueled with hot dogs, booze....”
Wasn’t booze illegal back then?....
People will be trying to toss Ruth’s homers because of the illegal alcohol back then. Of course, Maris and Aaron may also have been hopped up on “greenies”, coca-cola, and cigarettes.
There was also an interesting analysis the other day of ballpark size; I’ll see if I can find it. The contention was that the new smaller ball parks have as much to do with the home run surge as the roids. Although, they didn’t seem to take into account the short porches in Yankee Stadium and the Polo Grounds where the Babe, Maris, Mantle, Mays, Ott, et al. hit a lot of their homers.