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Sports Central August 8, 2007 Bijan C. Bayne |
In Bonds, Did We Create a Longball Monster? The most revered and memorized individual record in sport is tainted. |
Sports Central July 22, 2012 Jeff Kallman |
The Straw That Stirs the Stink Reggie Jackson certainly cut across the proverbial grain with his Sports Illustrated remarks questioning the Hall of Fame credentials of Jim Rice and Gary Carter. When the hoopla exploded he couldn't wait to back away from them |
Sports Central May 14, 2009 Bijan C. Bayne |
Time For MLB to Man Up on Records Which sluggers from this period merit election to Cooperstown? The Manny Ramirez mess only serves to further muddy these waters. |
Sports Central January 7, 2005 Bijan C. Bayne |
'Roid Rage in the Drive For 755 All eyes will be watching Barry Bonds as he tries to break the all-time home run record held by Hank Aaron. |
Sports Central March 25, 2004 David Zirin |
The Case For Barry Bonds For Sports Illustrated to hang the asterisk on Bonds was to publicly call history's greatest baseball career into question |
Sports Central February 17, 2009 Jeff Kallman |
You Can't Always Get What You Want Barry Bonds from nearly the beginning of his major league career behaved as though baseball was his entitlement and its record books, his birthright. |
Salon.com October 25, 2002 Allen Barra |
Barry and the Babe Forget the nostalgia freaks droning on and on about the Mythical White Ballplayer era. Barry Bonds is the greatest player in baseball history. |
AskMen.com Steve Seepersaud |
Top 20: Baseball Players Of All Time This season, Barry Bonds continues his assault on the Major League Baseball record books, closing in on the career home run title. He's easily one of the best players the game has ever seen. |
Sports Central April 3, 2006 Bill Hazell |
Baseball's Anti-Race is On Step right up. Fasten your seat-belts, it's going to be an awkward, tension-filled season. |
Sports Central July 26, 2011 Brad Oremland |
Barry Bonds, on the Edge of Cooperstown A Hall of Fame that doesn't recognize Barry Bonds isn't serving its mission. |
Sports Central January 10, 2008 Sean Crowe |
The Obligatory "Jim Rice HOF Snub" Column Another year goes by and once again, the Baseball Writers' Association of America proves they lack the metal prowess required to elect baseball players to the Hall of Fame. |
Sports Illustrated September 17, 2002 Tom Verducci |
Taking the fifth Barry Bonds' multidimensional game fuels another MVP bid. |
Sports Central March 30, 2006 Jeff Kallman |
The Trouble With Barry He may pass Hank Aaron as a home run hitter and a ballplayer, but Hank Aaron is light years past Barry Bonds as a man. |
Salon.com June 20, 2001 Allen Barra |
The best season ever? Barry Bonds is on his way, if you look at the stat -- and it isn't home runs -- that measures offensive performance most accurately... |
Sports Central April 7, 2005 Vincent Musco |
Bonds Leaves Us Feeling Confused Barry Bonds is positioned to break Babe Ruth's home run record but other issues such as steroid use cloud his image. |
Sports Central April 10, 2006 Adam Russell |
Bonds, Rose Deserve Similar Punishment A number of comparisons can be drawn between the current Bonds situation and Pete Rose's of the late 1980s. One of them is the argument regarding the game's "integrity." |
Sports Central January 27, 2009 Jeff Kallman |
Cooperstown Calling Commentary about recent Hall of Fame selections. |
Sports Central May 20, 2004 Vincent Musco |
Baseball's Steroid Fallout Our nation's pastime faces a steroid epidemic which stands to destroy the credibility of some of baseball's brightest stars. |
Sports Central July 8, 2009 Jeff Kallman |
SC's All-Time MLB Draft (Pt. 2) Sports columnists choose an all time MLB team. |
Sports Central August 24, 2010 Brad Oremland |
The Best First Basemen in History Where great first basemen of the last 20 years stack up historically? |
Sports Central March 26, 2005 Greg Wyshynski |
Sports Media's Steroid Hypocrisy Today's sports pundits have more in common with Major League Baseball's braintrust than they'd like to admit -- they all placed their heads in the sand just deep enough to play blind to the sport's steroid subculture while still being able to hear the cash register ring. |
Sports Central November 16, 2015 Jeff Kallman |
HOF Ballot: The Holdovers The holdover Hall of Fame ballot entrants are both an interesting and a troublesome group, largely because the recent rule changes limiting a Baseball Writers Association of America candidate to ten years on the ballot. |
Sports Illustrated November 13, 2001 Tom Verducci |
Scorecard Mark McGwire leaves the game the way he played it -- with class... |
Sports Illustrated August 22, 2001 Stephen Cannella |
Better Than Ever While others pursue the home run record, Sammy Sosa is having his finest season... |
Sports Central March 8, 2006 Mike Round |
Hold the Front Page: Barry Was Juiced We don't need two guys from the San Francisco Chronicle to tell us BALCO Barry was playing dirty. |
Sports Central June 22, 2005 Bijan C. Bayne |
Raging About 'Roids: Baseball Bashers Busted Something seemed suspicious about home run statistics. As this year's statistics unfold it becomes clear who was "enhanced." |
Sports Central May 22, 2007 Paul Tenorio |
Should Barry Bonds Be a Hall of Famer? Barry Bonds surely had Hall of Fame numbers before the steroid controversy erupted. So does his alleged steroid use change the picture -- and should it? |
Salon.com August 9, 2001 Allen Barra |
Shoeless Joe Jackson revisited Does the banished ballplayer belong in the Hall of Fame? Depends whether you're talking about the player or the man... |
Sports Central May 7, 2007 Seth Doria |
The Legend of Barry Baseball Just as Aaron breaking Ruth's record was a symbolic victory over the racist institution that was Major League Baseball, Bonds' accomplishments are a symbolic punishment for baseball's two-faced hypocrisy over the use of chemical enhancements. |
Sports Central July 13, 2005 William Geoghegan |
Long Live the Long Ball Who needs steroids? Certainly not the players in this year's record-breaking Home Run Derby, the opening sideshow to Major League Baseball's annual All-Star Game. |
Sports Central January 28, 2013 Jeff Kallman |
Stan Musial, RIP: More Than the Man "An exact opposite of [Ted] Williams," Roger Kahn (in Sport) wrote of Musial. "The perfect gentleman, the perfect sport. Never angry at draft boards, seldom spits in public, always hits with enthusiasm, smiles often. |
Sports Central February 27, 2006 Dave Golokhov |
I Hate Mondays: What Does 756 Mean? Nobody cares about the prospects of the San Francisco Giants winning the World Series. It's all Bonds and it's all 756. Can he do it? And will it be relevant? |
Sports Central September 8, 2004 Jeff Kallman |
Bonds: "I'm Amazed By it All" Not so amazed is Hank Aaron, who said, "he's probably one of the greatest hitters that ever played the game." And Harmon Killebrew, who added, "with all the records he's approaching, you've got to say that. He's a great player." |
Salon.com July 6, 2002 King Kaufman |
Teddy Ballgame, MVP Never mind whether Ted Williams would have broken Babe Ruth's home run record if he hadn't gone to war twice. Consider how often he was the best when he did play. |
Sports Central July 12, 2004 M. Edward Guest |
NL MVP Race Breakdown: Rolen vs. Bonds Through the halfway point in the Major League Baseball season, without any doubt, Barry Bonds deserves his seventh National League MVP Award. |
Sports Central April 23, 2007 Eric Poole |
Flashback to 756 Hank Aaron said he is too old for "this excrement" that would go along with chasing Barry Bonds around the country waiting for home run number 756. |
Sports Central January 17, 2011 Jeff Kallman |
The Dutchman and Other HOF Thoughts Well, now. I no longer have to apologize for championing Bert Blyleven as a Hall of Famer, which I've done for about the previous decade. He finally made it in his final try with the Baseball Writers Association of America. |
Salon.com September 29, 2000 Allen Barra |
The greatness of Barry Bonds Sure, he's totally unlovable, but the San Francisco Giants superstar is still the best player in the National League, and maybe the best in baseball... |
Sports Central August 8, 2007 Jeff Kallman |
Aaron and Bonds Versus Cooperstown A comparison of the achievements of Hank Aaron and Barry Bonds. |
AskMen.com Simon Sinek |
Are You Willing To Strike Out?: Simon Sinek It's perfectly fine to be a good, solid player who doesn't go down swinging that often, but it also means you won't hit that many home runs. |
Sports Central July 9, 2009 Brad Oremland |
SC's All-Time MLB Draft (Pt. 3) In a 5-part series, sports columnists compare picks in an all-time MLB draft. |
Popular Mechanics April 2005 Allen St. John |
Barry the Babe Who's the better hitter? When Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants bats for Babe Ruth's record a few weeks from now, it'll be a whole new ballgame for stat-obsessed fans. |
Sports Central May 24, 2011 Brad Oremland |
Re-Thinking Zero Tolerance For Steroids We don't have to accept steroid use in baseball, and we probably shouldn't accept it. But there has to be a line. And I think zero tolerance is too strict a standard. |
Salon.com March 28, 2002 Allen Barra |
What Barry Bonds did wrong He's the best player in baseball, but hitting 73 home runs at age 37 isn't just unnatural, it might be ruining the game... |
Sports Central August 3, 2005 Bijan C. Bayne |
The Steroid Storm: Plausible Denial? A picture is taking shape in baseball that makes sense of the decade since the 1994 strike. The power surge, the nagging injuries, and so on. Yes, the picture is coming into focus, and it's ugly |
Sports Central May 13, 2014 Andrew Jones |
Active MLB Players' HOF Chances Major League Baseball's active list of potential Hall of Fame careers appears relatively clean. Let's turn over a new leaf and look at some worthy active candidates. |
Sports Central January 13, 2013 Jeff Kallman |
A Hall Election and Nobody's Coming The Baseball Writers Association of America ended up electing nobody to the Hall of Fame. And I'm not sure which, among factors gaining serious discussion as the voting commenced and, at last, the results came in, may prove the most controversial of them all. |
Sports Central July 1, 2014 Brad Oremland |
Singles Hitters Who Walk Tony Gwynn was an example of a type of hitter that fascinates me -- a singles hitter who walked a lot. |
Salon.com July 24, 2000 Gary Kaufman |
Who's going to Cooperstown? Considering the definitelys, the probables and those intriguing maybes. |
Sports Central July 19, 2004 Brad Oremland |
Statistically Significant In light of the rising popularity of fantasy sports, should the media stop focusing on baseball's Triple Crown statistics and focus on the numbers that matter? |