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If you ask baseball historians, they claim back to ruth people took stuff that "helped", given it was a scince like today, but neither was weight lifting, and while it can be argued that Bonds may or maynot have been on illegal substance, as stated, he has one of the toughest workouts in the league, known for spending 4-8 hours a day w/ a personal trainer.
Yes, he is bigger then he was as a rookie, and he was a rookie... 10? 15 years ago? 50lbs of muscle in 10years? with the proper workout and diet... very possible.
All being said, if it comes out Bonds was on illegal drugs when he broke the record, I take his name out of the book.
Mac was on a legal substance (legal at the time) I don't give him an astrix...
As for Sosas "tear in the summer" might that speak more to a corked bat being used?
I don't strip a record for speculation, cause there's too many players you can speculate on, or a player taking advatage of things the previous era didn't have... legal suplements, weights, nutrition.
What about pitching records? in the AL you face a DH instead of a pitcher, should NL pitching records get an Astrix?
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