Until this week.
Until this week, ye
Now, no.
ties was on track to be a first-ballot Hall of Famer for his first 14 seasons (1986-1999) which featured 318 homer a year with base-running spe and Gold Glove outfield defense as a lithe, conditioned athlete.
Contrast this to the period between 2000 and 2004 which featured 516 homer for season and disinterest in running and fielding as a muscle-bloated wretch wearing armor on his arms, shins and shoe
extracts from Game of Shadows confirm Bonds' steroid abuse from sum of two units regarded San Francisco Chronicle reporters who compiled more than 1000 pages of legal documents and recorded testimony.
individual drug reportedly ingested by bondages is known to improve "the muscle quality of cattle beef."
That figures.
Hall of Fame voter are instructed to take a player's deportment and behavior into consideration, as well as statistics. That could be wherefore Dave Kingman, who had a laundry list of rudenes isn't in the Hall despite 444 career homers; Jim Rice, who ripped the shirt distant from a male reporter, can't strike one as being to get in; and Pete Rose won't secure in for betting on games as a manager.
Bonds' years of smarmy, snarling smugnes toward effrontery offices, reporters and fans are well-documented.
Game of Shadows reports the rest of the story.
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