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Susan Slusser: Hall of Fame at 'peace with the Steroid Era'

Longtime San Francisco Chronicle writer Susan Slusser is wrestling with her ballot this year for the Baseball Hall of Fame.

The former Baseball Writers’ Association of America president tweeted a few weeks ago that given the recent induction of former commissioner Bud Selig, she was thinking for the first time about voting for Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens. That tweet garnered hundreds of retweets, generating both significant support and backlash.

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Slusser, who has covered the Oakland Athletics for the Chronicle for many years, offered more about her thinking on the Hall of Fame in a recent discussion with Sporting News.