http://youtu.be/FtIGn--1Ne8

75 to 80% of baseball was dirty during that time. The owners knew as did the coaches and the media. Barry Bonds was the best player in baseball before steroids. Baseball was considered to be 'America's Pastime' when Sammie Sosa and Mark McGuire went after the immortal single season home run record that belong to Herman Ruth. McGuire was a lifetime .240% hitter. He and Sammy Sosa both struck out more that a fat pimple face kid at a high school dance did. They both lied to congress when ask if they had ever used steroids. Neither of the two were indicted by a grand jury. Barry Bonds was as arrogant as he was great. He already had the best on base percentage and batting average of all active players in the majors. He always lead the majors in walks and he won the Golden Glove award damn near every year that he had been in the major leagues. His down fall was when he became jealous of Sosa and McGuire's home run feats because he knew how they had accomplished it. Everyone in baseball knew it. Bud Selig turned his back because the long ball put butts in the seats. Bonds knew that he was a much better on base and home run hitter in baseball before they started juicing. The problem was that the 'CLEAR' (TESTOSTERONE) made him so much better than everyone else that the baseball purest so got angry and hateful towards him they actually wanted to see him banned from the sport and go to prison. All of this because he destroyed all of the Babe's records.

The government ended wasting years and millions of taxpayer dollars on trying to send him to prison and smear his name forever. They turned a blind eye towards McGuire. He's actually coaching in the majors right now. How many alcoholic racist are in Canton right now ? Almost every player in the majors back in the 50's, 60's and 70's took greenies (speed) just so they could play double headers.

In truth the all time home run record belongs to Josh Gibson, a man that Ruth called the greatest hitter that he'd ever seen but never got a chance to play in the majors because America and baseball were segregated during that time. Having said that, I believe that an asterisk should be place on every record that was set during those segregated years because most of the best talent was kept off of the field. Jackie Robinson wasn't the best player in the Negro Leagues. Walter O'Malley thought that he was the best fit because he had gone to college and he was a military captain.

That being said, you can hate Barry Bonds all that you want but it doesn't change the truth. Bonds hardly ever struck out in his career. He was the first player in the game to steal 40 bases and hit over 40 home runs in the same season.Willie Mays calls him the greatest to ever play the game and I obviously agree.