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Barry Bonds and Baseball's Steroids Scandal

...Bonds transformed his physique: by 2001, the authors write, he "looked like a WWE wrestler or a toy superhuman action figure." And he managed this transformation in his mid-30's, at an age when most players (like his father, Bobby) were gone from the game or in decline.The stats themselves were surreal.

"Over the first 13 seasons of his career," Mr.

Williams and Mr.

Fainaru-Wada write, "from 1986-1998, Bonds hit .290 and averaged 32 home runs and 93 RBI.

He hit one home run every 16 at-bats.

But in the six seasons after he began using performance-enhancing drugs � that is, from 1999 to 2004, between the ages of 34 and 40 � Bonds's batting line averaged .328, 49 and 105.

That represented 17 additional home runs and 12 additional RBI per year.

He would hit a home run every 8.4 at-bats."At the time, much of the baseball world wanted to ignore rumors about Mr.

Bonds's steroid use, just as it had tried to ignore questions about Mark McGuire and Sammy Sosa's gaudy home-run tear in 1998.

After the 1994 strike, a power surge in the game helped reignite fan interest � "chicks dig the long ball," in the words of an old Nike commercial � and many reasons besides rising steroid use were advanced for the home-run boom: smaller ballparks, a smaller strike zone, more expansion teams (which meant a dilution of the pitching ranks).

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