Give It Back to Maris
Steroids will forever be a blemish to today’s era of baseball. In the minds of many fans, Barry Bonds will always have an asterisk next to his name. Soon, with all the revelations about baseballs recent history coming out, Mark McGwire's 70 home runs, Sammy Sosa's 66 home runs; maybe even Ichiro's 262 hits will have an asterisk accompanying the record. There is no way to know which records were achieved fairly, and which ones were achieved through the means of cheating. Every record will have to be thoroughly reviewed.
Marc “The Mose” Moser, a radio personality at Denver’s AM 950 The Fan, wants to do something about it. He believes there is only one solution to the problem; Give It Back to Maris.
"This website is designed for the sole purpose of setting the Major League Baseball Single Season Home Run Record straight. With the acknowledgement of an era of baseball where the legitimacy of every record is in doubt, we believe there is only one solution to the ongoing steroid controversy and mistrust that not only surrounds the game but has created doubt in the game for the last 16 years. That solution is for Major League Baseball to GIVE IT BACK TO MARIS!
The 61 home runs that Roger Maris hit in 1961 were the benchmark that every major league slugger was shooting for 37 years. We contend that the passing of the Maris record by Mark McGuire and Sammy Sosa in 1998 and the subsequent mark set by Barry Bonds in 2001 CAN’T BE TRUSTED. We know it, they know and Major League Baseball knows it!"
While the effort might (and most likely will) be thrown aside, not even recognized by those who need to see it, it can’t hurt to try and at least show that there are thousands, maybe millions of fans out there who want something done about the contraversy.
So for everyone who questions these records, who disagrees with them, who wants to make sure that an asterisk be placed next to Bonds’ name forever in the record books, take a minute of your time and try to Give It Back to Maris.
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