Major League Baseball ends lifetime bans for Pete Rose, 'Shoeless' Joe Jackson

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21. I think a manager betting on games is worse than a player taking steroids, although I don't condone that either.

Barry Bonds won three well-deserved MVP Awards (1990, 1992, 1993), five years before he started taking steroids in 1998.

However, in his ten years of eligibility for the Hall of Fame (2013-2022), he fell short of the 75% of the votes needed for induction.
(In 2022, he got 66% of the votes required)

IMHO, Bonds deserves to be in the Hall of Fame, despite the BALCO scandal and his subsequent conviction (later overturned on appeal)

In 2001, after the 9/11 attacks, MLB Commissioner Bud Selig postponed all games through September 16.
When MLB games were resumed on September 17, 2001, Barry Bonds resumed his chase of Mark McGuire's home run record of 70 and broke the record on October 7 by hitting his 73rd home run.
In doing so, Barry Bonds did more to help America get over the widespread grief from the 9/11 attacks than anyone, imo.
For that alone, he should be in the Hall of Fame.