Tony La Russa advocates the induction of players linked to steroids into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

La Russa will be inducted in Cooperstown as a manager this weekend.

La Russa, who managed the Chicago White Sox, Oakland Athletics and St. Louis Cardinals between 1979 and 2011, said that because he's one of the new inductees, he feels free to state his opinion on the subject.

"Treat them all the same," La Russa said. "If you were a Hall of Famer during that period as far as your pitching and playing, I would create some kind of asterisk, where everybody understands that, 'Look, we have some questions, but you were still the dominant pitchers and players of your time.'

"We have to acknowledge that that period for about 10 or 12 years, somewhere around the early '90s to the early 2000s, was a black spot, a negative mark in our history."