Letter: Let’s acknowledge our leaders’ tainted legacies

Designers sliced the leather of Barry Bonds’ home run record-breaking baseball in the shape of an asterisk before placing the ball for permanent display in the Baseball Hall of Fame. The asterisk, a punctuation symbol indicating a footnote, cautions that while Barry Bonds achieved an incredible feat, the accomplishment was likely — if not certainly — tainted by steroid use.And there the ball sits, permanently defaced, the leather cut and the yarn exposed, an acknowledgement tha