Barry Bonds’ Hall of Fame Status Should Not Be on Trial  Perjury
trial has nothing to do with the slugger’s legacy.  Posted:
03/22/2011 04:52 PM EDT  The ball Barry Bonds whacked into the
centerfield bleachers for his record-breaking 756th home run on
August 7, 2007, is in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown,
NY. One day, Bonds should be enshrined in the Hall as well,
regardless of the outcome of his perjury trial that has begun in
San Francisco.  Baseball waited far too long to introduce drug
testing. It would be unfair to make Bonds—one of the greatest
players ever—a scapegoat because Commissioner Bud Selig and
other officials looked the other way while performance-enhancing
drugs were rampant in baseball. The last two decades in baseball
history are known as the steroid era. Bonds was part of that
era, not its founder.  Bonds is charged with lying to a federal
grand jury in 2007 when he testified that he did not knowingly
use steroids or other illegal drugs. Some members of the
Baseball Writers Associ