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About the baseball records, you guys have to understand that the game back then was much different then the game today. Putting steroids aside for a sec, back in the deadball era, (1900-1920) a lot of pitching records were set that still exist today. Take Cy Young's 511 victories, Ed Walsh's 1.82 career ERA, Jack Chesbro's 41 Wins in a Single Season, Walter Johnson's 110 Shutouts etc. Now these records were not just because pitchers usually pitched nine inings and worked on a 4 man rotation, but also because pitchers were aloud to put all kinds of crap on the ball, the same ball was used all game, unless it got lost, and the mound was closer.
Now go back to what I said about pitchers putting all kinds of crap on the ball. Back in those days, pitchers were A loud to rub mud, dirt, vaseline, tobacco, and whatever else on the ball. You name it, it was probably rubbed on the ball at one point or another. So what point am I trying to prove here. Well what I'm saying is that the records have always been tainted in one way or another. Pitchers had an advantage back that they don't have today. And Pitchers still kept using those methods (Gaylord Perry with Vaseline) even when they became illegal to get an advantage over the batter. So it's hard to say that the Homerun records could be tainted because of steroids, because in reality, almost all the records all tainted in one way or another.
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