It (baseball) is a haunted game in which every player is measured against the ghosts of all who have gone before.

It’s early June and the Rockies are already out of the pennant race – so what else is new? Managers and players come and go but America’s most enduring love affair is still with the game of baseball. As Ken Burns noted in his 1994 documentary (and in the quote above), we assess all that we see today through the lens of what has come before. That may be why the issue of steroid use is bigger for baseball fans than almost any other sport (with the significant exception of cycling). This is a conversation with Sports Illustrated writer Selena Roberts and America’s best sportscaster, Bob Costas. They talk about A-Rod, the love for the game and why we may need to re-evaluate our black & white perspective on baseball’s steroid era.