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Crockett and East Texas News

by Billy "Hollywood" Groves

 Billy "Hollywood" Groves

 

Barry Bonds Baseball Record is Legitimate

 

With 756 home runs, Barry Bonds has set a new standard for home run hitters and is now Major League Baseball’s new Home Run King ! I ’m hoping all the major slams the media has given him with accusations of steroid use will no longer be front and center news. While I can kind of understand why most people will do anything to keep their jobs; I can’t fully understand why some of these “talking head” sellouts in the media have to go out of their way to put other black people down In a recent televised round table discussion abound Bonds, it was the black commentator who suggested that he ought to quit before he breaks Babe Ruth or Hank Aaron’s home run record. Unless you have been off the planet for awhile, you know that a lot of American have a problem with

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Bonds, a black baseball superstar who is supposed to be hitting homeruns because he is using performance enhancing drugs.

While its a fact that steroids and other strength enhancing drugs may make a person bigger and stronger, at the time I am writing this article, there is no drug that you can buy that gives you talent.

If they had that kind of drug available rich people would dominate every sport, including golf, and poor people wouldn’t have a chance.

The ironical and hypocritical aspect of America’s media hating of Barry Bonds is the fact that Barry Bond’s baseball record s are more legitimate and valid than Babe Ruth or Hank Aaron’s records.
One just has to look at the era that Babe Ruth played. There were no black baseball players then and very few “others” than white ball players.
So, in essence, Babe Ruth played against inferior talent in the then, segregated major league baseball of his time. I often wonder if many of America’s early sports and political stars would have had an impact in their profession if they had competed against “All of the people of America”. At the end of the day, if you want to question the validity of Barry Bonds records, then you have to question the legitimacy of all the white and black players who played major league baseball in America’s “Jim Crow Era”. God Bless American , Africa and black sports historians who bring out the real truth.
Until next time ~ Billy “Hollywood” Groves

 

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