Steroids or no steroids, as someone back in the day put it, he still had to "hit a round ball with a round bat onto a square field". That takes more coordination than steroids will give you.

His record being broken may be under some kind of "grandfather clause". If Pete Rose had broken the hit record, before gambling by players and coaches was made illegal, he may be in the Hall of Fame.
beachguy in thongs Reviewed by beachguy in thongs on . Barry Bonds indicted for allegedly lying under oath Home run king Barry Bonds, the owner of the most sacred record in sports and once considered a lock for the Hall of Fame, was indicted Thursday for allegedly lying under oath to a grand jury about his steroid use. Federal prosecutors charged the 43-year-old slugger with perjury and obstruction of justice in a 10-page indictment filed in United States District Court in San Francisco, four years after investigators raided the Bay Area Laboratory Cooperative and Bonds testified that he never Rating: 5