Posted March 29, 200520 yr http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2024427 BISMARCK, N.D. -- A North Dakota legislator is trying to muscle Roger Maris' 61-homer season back into baseball's record books because of allegations that the three players who have surpassed him did so with the help of steroids. "If these folks are on the juice, and I believe they're on the juice, then Roger should get his record back," Sen. Joel Heitkamp said. He's sponsoring a resolution that asks baseball commissioner Bud Selig to reinstate Maris' record of 61 home runs in 1961. A spokesman for baseball did not respond to a request for comment. The North Dakota Senate's Education Committee, which reviewed the resolution Monday, took less than 20 minutes to recommend that the full Senate approve it. Maris, born in Hibbing, Minn., was a high school football star and American Legion baseball standout in Fargo, N.D., which has a museum displaying his memorabilia and a cancer treatment center named for him. Maris was buried in Fargo after his death from lymphoma in 1985. His home run record stood until 1998, when St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Mark McGwire hit 70. Three years later, San Francisco Giants outfielder Barry Bonds surpassed McGwire, hitting 73 home runs. Bonds has beaten Maris' 61-homer record once. The retired McGwire surpassed it twice and Sammy Sosa has bettered it three times. :banghead
March 29, 200520 yr While we're at it can we take away Peyton Manning's TD record. I believe he was on 'roids last year. :plain
March 29, 200520 yr I remember when Sports used to be fun.... 723576[/snapback] He does too. :plain That one is for the women's team. Like you care.
March 29, 200520 yr Can't say that I disagree with him in that 61 should be reinstated as the real record, but there are other ways to go about it.
March 29, 200520 yr What else can a North Dakota leglistator do with their time? :mischief 723636[/snapback] I remember when they tried to take the North out of North Dakota to increase toursim.
March 30, 200520 yr Author What else can a North Dakota leglistator do with their time? :mischief 723636[/snapback] Good point
March 30, 200520 yr In order to give maris back the record we have to prove that mcgwire, bonds, and sosa used roids. Bonds said he used them unknowingly, mcgwire pled the fifth. However, Sosa said straight up that he didnt use them, so why should we take his record away? He also broke Maris's record and until proven otherwise he did it fairly, he denied using them. Right now unless Mcgwire under oath says he didnt use them, the HR record should belong to Sammy Sosa not roger Maris.
March 30, 200520 yr Author In order to give maris back the record we have to prove that mcgwire, bonds, and sosa used roids. Bonds said he used them unknowingly, mcgwire pled the fifth. However, Sosa said straight up that he didnt use them, so why should we take his record away? He also broke Maris's record and until proven otherwise he did it fairly, he denied using them. Right now unless Mcgwire under oath says he didnt use them, the HR record should belong to Sammy Sosa not roger Maris. 724111[/snapback] Sammy Sosa also said he unknowingly used a cork bat. :plain
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