Mike Piazza is more than a catcher, more than a home run hitter, and more than a newly-minted baseball immortal.
He doubles as a social experiment, a perfect emblem of the steroid era.
Not because he clearly took PEDs, but because we clearly can’t say he didn’t. He played much of his career in a forest of suspicion. Between his bulk, epic home runs, and bacne, Piazza’s resume was full of italics.
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It’s hard to think of anyone who entered the Baseball Hall of Fame under a wider cloud of questions.