Baseball's former home run king "Hammerin'" Hank Aaron says he has no opinion on whether or not Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens deserve to be in the Hall of Fame, but he firmly believes that the sport will eventually move past the current Steroids Era.
"I think baseball is trying to clean up its act," Aaron said, sitting in the Atlanta Braves' dugout during batting practice Tuesday. "It's unfortunate for baseball, but baseball has been through some tough times. It went through the White Sox scandal and survived. It went through a lot of things and survived. It's going to survive this, too."
Aaron, in the ATL for Braves executive meetings, said he tuned in to watch Clemens testify before Congress last week and deny using human growth hormone as alleged by his former trainer. Aaron says it was good that the testimony took place before the regular season gets underway.
"I'm glad it happened, and I'm glad it happened before spring training, before the season started," Aaron said. "We can get it over and done with. You'll see. When the season starts, we'll again be drawing fans. People will come out to watch these kids play."
The former Braves slugger declined to say whether he found Clemens' testimony believable, taking the same tact he consistently followed when similar charges were leveled against Barry Bonds, the guy who broke the Hammer's home run record last season.
"Only Roger can answer to that," Aaron said. "I can't answer to that. I can't say what happened."
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