Tuesday, January 04, 2005
Reading the sports pages today, I read several articles about Baseball’s newest Hall of Famers, Wade Boggs, and Ryan Sandburg. The articles consistently spoke of the mediocrity of these two players. Actually, the mediocrity of the all of the base players in the 80's for all that matters. Were our baseball heroes of the 1980's really just average players? Or is that they are perceived as common players today because of the steroid enhanced stats that players are putting up now? Who are really the heroes of the diamond? Is it the big muscle and big bats of today’s players or the hard playing small ball players of our youth? Granted, there were some big bats of the 80's such as, Mike Schmitt and George Brett, but their numbers even seem small compared by some to today’s possibly steroid enhanced players.
