Cooperstown Confidential

In the video "Cooperstown Confidential" by Zev Chafets, he talks about the problems the Hall of Fame has today. He says that it is unwilling to face reality about the steroid issue today. There were many different eras in baseball from the dead ball era to the steroid era and the players from the other eras are in the Hall of Fame so why exclude steroids? It goes on the say that in the upcoming years there will be a debate on whether players such a Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, or Alex Rodriguez should be in the Hall of Fame. Chafets says that, "If the Hall of Fame, for reasons of Victorian morality tries to keep them out..... then no one would care about the Hall of Fame anymore" (Chafets).

I have mixed feelings about this video. I don't think that any player who used steroids should be in the Hall of Fame. In this video though, Chafets makes a good point that there are players who cheated in other ways in the Hall of Fame, so why keep out players who used steroids. He then says if the Hall tries to keep them out by morality then no one will care about the Hall of Fame. I think it is the exact opposite, I don't think it would be ok to knowingly let a cheater into the Hall because then it would have no more meaning.

"Cooperstown Confidential by Zev Chafets." YouTube. Web. 9 April 2010. .