Roger Maris is still the undisputed home run king.
Those drug-swollen freaks don’t count. Rog did it on his own. When will baseball admit the truth and restore Maris to the top?
I doubt that baseball will ever admit any truths about the steroid era. So we will not see Roger Maris’ single season home run record restored. Nor will we see Hank Aaron’s lifetime home run record restored.
Instead, I think that the steroid era and distorted home run totals will just be looked at as a time in baseball when lots of homers were hit. Just as we look back at the dead ball era as being a time when few homers were hit, and debate about the game has changed due to night baseball and modern day relief pitcher closers, baseball fans will debate about the steroid era. But baseball will not change the record books on the subject.