When Roger Maris broke Babe Ruth's single season home run record, he had done so with a 162 game season compared to Ruth's hitting 60 in a 154 game season.
It wasn't Roger Maris who added the games, but people thought less of his achievement, asterisk or not.
When Mark McGwire broke the single season record held by Roger Maris, he used performance enhancing drugs. He kept it a secret and everyone cheered him and wanted to see him bash homers, though he was cheating against nature. If he didn't use drugs, he'd probably have been elected into the Hall of Fame the first time he was eligible. His record was broken by Barry Bonds who also broke Hank Aaron's all-time home run record. Did Bonds ever technically retire? No one signed him, though he was still juiced and delivering dingers, because of various reasons regarding his legal issues. Bonds morphed his body through hard work and chemistry. With his previous natural talent alone he was an MVP, but he now has as good a chance of being in the Hall of Fame as Pete Rose.
Sometimes holding a record means nothing to certain people that matter, sure the record is on the books but it's not quite the same as records set previously.
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