[TheRockCT]

I agree with both Aadik and MD on this. I love baseball, it's been a passion of mine all my life. I just don't view it through rose-colored glasses regardless of its era. Aadik's right, the talent is probably more expansive in today's game, and the rampant racism of the game's first 50-75 years was an immense problem that leaves a stain. But I also agree that steroids is a huge issue, too, and will probably be looked at as the steroid era without a doubt, and that leaves a stain.

But yet, it's one of those "military history" conflictions to me. Wars such as WWII were terrible for countless reasons. But I still find myself drawn to the study and personal incorporation of the topics and issues of military history. Baseball, in the same light, is not something that IMO has ever been pure, for one reason or another. I just can't view a particular era as the "pinnacle" of baseball greatness and immortality.