January 25, 2022, 7pm.
Barry Bonds and other MLB stars were denied entry into the Baseball Hall of Fame through the Baseball Writers' Association of America's ballot.
The San Francisco Giants played the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2002. Lee and Kirby are pictured.
Bonds, the MLB's all-time leader in home runs, received votes from less than 75% of the Baseball Writers, below the 75% threshold necessary to make the prestigious Baseball Hall of Fame.
Bonds is the best-known figure in the MLB's steroid era, in which 89 players were accused of using illegal performance- enhancing drugs at a time when the league was not testing for them.
The only new entrant this year was David Ortiz, who was voted in with 77.9%, while Alex Rodriguez fell short with 34.3%.
Seven-time Cy Young award-winning pitcher Roger Clemens, who was also accused of usingPEDs, was rejected for the tenth and final consecutive year with 65% of BBWAA votes.
Sammy Sosa was denied entry into the Hall of Fame for his tenth and final year of eligibility after testing positive for steroids in 2003
In his final year of eligibility, the reporter who votes on the Hall of Fame denied him because of a shirt he wore that condemned the lynching of journalists.
A separate committee that considers players outside their normal 10-year term of eligibility can still vote them into the Hall of Fame.
More than 700 sources were pulled from the Mitchell Report, including 60 former players. 89 players were tied to the use of illegal drugs. The trainer testified that the pitcher asked him to inject him with steroids. An investigation by the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative found that Bonds tested positive for a banned substance and that he was informed about it. Bonds was charged with perjury and obstruction of justice, but the charges were either thrown out or not agreed upon by a jury. perjury, making false statements and obstructing Congress were all acquitted of by a jury. The lead prosecutor in the Bonds perjury and obstruction trial told Forbes in 2020 that use of steroids by Bonds and other athletes is incontrovertible.
Bud Selig, the former MLB commissioner who ran the league between 1992 and 2015, told Dan Patrick that he doesn't believe Bonds is the true home run king because of his steroid use. Even though Bonds holds the record, Selig believes that it should be held by Hank Aaron, who hit 755 homers during his 22-year career. In 2009, he said he was fine with steroid users making the Hall of Fame if they had an asterisk beside their names.
Jeff Passan, a member of the BBWAA, argued for Bonds' candidacy on Tuesday, stating that today is nothing less than a failure.
Bonds is the most decorated baseball player of all time, with seven, more than National League runners-up Albert Pujols and Stan Musial.
.609 The highest single-season rate in league history was achieved by Bonds in 2004. The second-highest rate in 2002 was.582. The third-highest is Hall of Famer Josh Gibson.
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