Think of all the possibilities for Barry Bonds if he had never chosen to take steroids following the 1998 season. I assume, of course, Game of Shadows correctly reported that Bonds began juicing following Mark McGwire’s record-setting 70-home-run year. Bonds was a lock for the Hall of Fame beforehand, his generation’s version of Willie Mays. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘what if’
Alternate history: If Barry Bonds hadn’t used steroids
Posted: 28th February 2010 by Graham Womack in Drugs in baseballTags: cause for debate, what if
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The “What If” Dream Team
Posted: 30th December 2009 by Graham Womack in Best of listsTags: Best of, what if
I’ve been kicking around the idea lately of creating a dream lineup for the players I feel were held back from immortality by one misfortune or another. These are the players who generally suffered some kind of catastrophic injury, left the game in shame, or died young. Barring these fates, many if not most of [...]
I just finished re-watching the 1999 documentary, The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg, about the Detroit Tigers Hall of Fame first baseman, when the thought occurred to look up Greenberg’s career statistics. Greenberg is an interesting case. Juxtaposed against our current era, where everyone except Omar Vizquel seems to rack up 500 career home [...]