The Use of Steroids in Baseball

The Use of Steroids in Baseball

For many individuals, there’s nothing like the Great American Pastime, but due to the steroids in baseball there’s again nothing like it. The foundation of baseball was established in New York at the time of 1850’s. The longest standing history in the United States is Major League Baseball (MLB) in New York. The major consideration of many people is to be the holy entity of sports with legends of truly immortal stature. Hollywood even has taken notice by producing hundreds o sports related movies but among all the super hit movies, the most famous one are of baseball.

Jose Canseco:

According to various studies, it has been proved that there are steroids in the baseball but not even a small amount proved to be harmful or problematic within the sports perception and reputation. The popularity of steroids in baseball has become more common as compared to any other sport in this world. In books named “Juiced: Wild Times, Smash Hits, and Rampant ‘Roids and How Baseball got Big”, the only thing they gave to snowball was her own steroid injections. Steroids use was already in a question when Canseco’s book got hit but after there were no denying and steroids in baseball became very popular.

The Chase:

Canseco isn’t the one only anabolic steroid user, but so many had a chance raised an immeasurable amount of suspension including The Chase for Roger Maris’ single season. He had raised the record of 61 home runs for 37 years since 1961. Bonds would go ahead in breaking the baseball career as well as become one of the leading poster-boys on the problems in steroids in baseball.

Congressional Hearings:

In 2005, the US congress had finally stepped into action and stood to discuss and testify the steroids in baseball. There was nothing like that in the history of US. It was nothing short of a circus in a circus. Many notable players were included in this mission to testify the steroids. They all agreed to the fact that the result of steroid depends on how you look at it.

With 2005 Congressional hearings, many questions were raised within the sports journalism. It was the cry of every person that where are the records? All the records weren’t real, but baseball needed to clean up its act. All in all the commissioner Bud Selig agreed and it’s not like that he had a choice.

The Mitchell Report:

In 2006, US Congressman George J. Mitchell of Maine was appointed to find the truth and the 409 report was released to cover the issues like steroids in baseball. This report went as far as it could to show how best the MLB should handle past offenders and others who fall prey to it.

The main themes of Mitchell report are listed below:

–   The consumers of performance enhancing drugs are at risk of serious health diseases.

–   In order to remain competitive, the performance-enhancing drugs influence others.

–   Corrupting statistics can be the result of the utilization of performance-enhancing drugs.

–   The use of these steroids can influence the children to emulate the athletes.

BALCO:

The “BALCO affairs” first became known with the investigation of the journalists Lance Williams and Mark Fainaru-Wada who determined the undetectable performance enhancing drug “The clear”. This BALCO soon found itself in US Attorney District Court under investigation in 2003.

Summary:

All the description mentioned above truly depicts the steroids in baseball. It’s unpredictable to know that the players used these steroids or not. It’s totally illegal to use steroids in a game like a baseball. You’re no one to question the rules of legitimacy.

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