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I have no problem with keeping steroid users out of the hall of fame. My problem is the double standard being applied to guys who played in the 90's while everyone forgets that guys like Mays and Stargell were selling amphetamines and steroids in their own clubhouses, Mantle missed part of the 1961 season because of an infection from a dirty needle filled with...GASP...steroids, and Hank Aaron played with the only guy from that era who has actually had the balls to come out and admit that he and everyone else were taking steroids in the 60's and 70's (and beyond that, most likely the 50's as anabolic steroids were already being abused in sports shortly after WWII).
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"I pretty much popped everything cold turkey. We were doing steroids they wouldn't give to horses."
-- Tom House
"I was very fortunate to have a pitching coach by the name of Tom House...Tom, I really miss those days that we spent in the weight room and out on the field working together."
-- Nolan Ryan's HoF Induction Speech
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