Baseball DIY

Mike Lupica makes a pretty impassioned case for giving the home run crown back to Roger Maris, or at least adding an asterisk next to his stats as in "this player held this record prior to the use of steroids in the sport."

I've wondered about this for the past couple months while all the rumors have been circulating. It's like comparing anything that the players did in the 1920s or 30s to what goes on now. Can you imagine playing for a few dollars, traveling in a burnt out bus and being lucky to get fed let alone having a place to sleep and yet still winning the game everyday? It seems like there should be a lot of asterisks in the record books, and the drug-free are just the beginning.