“The Hall of Fame can tell that story,” he continues. “It can tell the story of Barry Bonds, the great baseball player, but also Barry Bonds, the flawed human.” The breaking point for Passan arrived courtesy of a roughly 1,200-word letter the Hall of Fame circulated to voters ahead of one induction class, composed under the byline of Hall of Famer Joe Morgan. “And I’m sitting there like, there’s some real pieces of sh*t in the Hall of Fame already. And you’re telling me that Barry Bonds, because he chose to pursue an area of the game that was beyond things, that makes him worse than Ty Cobb?