Manny Ramirez was back in the Los Angeles Dodgers' lineup on July 3 after a 50-game suspension for being a drug cheat. On Wednesday night, he hit his fifth home run since his return. He is now at 538 for his career and has surpassed Mickey Mantle for No. 15 on the all-time home run list.

"To see his name above Mantle's on the list ... that's a shame," Harmon Killebrew said.

Killebrew was No. 5 on the all-time list, one behind Frank Robinson, when he retired with 573 home runs after the 1975 season.

He held that position for 26 years, before being passed in this decade by Mark McGwire, Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa and Ken Griffey Jr. Alex Rodriguez hit No. 572 on Sunday and soon will drop Killebrew to 10th in career home runs.

Or, as a reporter asked this week at the start of a phone conversation, "Does it bother you that another steroid/drug cheat is ready to go past you on the all-time list?"

Harmon paused and said: "I think it would bother anybody, but what can you do? Nobody is really doing anything to address what steroids did to the game, what it did to the game's records.

"As far as I'm concerned, Hank Aaron is the all-time home run champ, and Roger Maris should still have the [single-season] record at 61, but Barry Bonds is the name you see in the record book."

The great slugger of the Twins paused again and said: "You wonder if it's worth it to have a record book?"

Throw in A-Rod and there's one player among the five that have pushed Killebrew down the list not tied to steroids: Griffey Jr.

"I like to hope that Junior was not among them," Harmon said. "I feel like he's not. And Jim Thome ... I hope he's not. But how can you know?

"That's why I say, 'Throw the names out there.' I would think the players who were clean should be telling the union to make the list public."