Bags and Rock and Pudge are heading to Cooperstown. After a vote that could prove to be a turning point how Steroids Era stars are viewed, Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens could be joining them in the next few years.
Bonds and Clemens, their careers tainted by allegations of steroids use, were passed over for the fifth straight year by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America but each received a majority of votes for the first time, but fell well short of the 75 percent threshold. Bonds received 53.8 percent, just behind Clemens at 54.1 percent.
Bonds, a seven-time MVP who holds the season and career home run records and spent 15 season with the Giants, received 36.