Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens, two of the most successful players in baseball history, are among the former stars who were essentially blacklisted from the Hall of Fame because of their reputations as doping cheats. But now, because of a sudden and surprising shift of voter sentiment, players who thrived during baseball’s so-called steroids era might be enshrined in Cooperstown after all.
The baseball writers who vote to decide which players are allowed into the Hall of Fame appear to be backing away from their punitive approach to players linked to doping because of what they perceive as hypocrisy.