... made history by hitting a sixty-second home run. Some weeks earlier many people suspected Mark McGwire of using androstenedione, a compound that boosts levels of the male sex hormone (Bamerger and Yaeger 7). Mark McGwire had been taking a legal drug to improve his power of lifting. He wanted to raise his testosterone level to reach Roger Maris's record in baseball. The Major League Baseball Committee ... not take away his record, but many fans did not think that he deserved such a great accomplishment (Bamerger and Yaegar 7). As the years go by, baseball stats are being blown out of pro...

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... up Like many other things in life , high school students will find themselves taking steroids because the older kids are doing it. When a high school baseball player who is hoping for a college scholarship watches a big league slugger hitting the ball 450 feet he feels like he needs to do something to get ... run record by hitting an amazing 70 home runs in one season, the trend of using performance enhancing drugs really began in high school sports. Another baseball player, Ken Caminiti, admitted to using steroids during his 1996 all star season. When professional athletes come out and ...

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... . He lived a life of love and caring and he also was a great sportsman. In high school he played football and baseball. He and his brother were the star players on the football team and Roger was a lone star on the baseball team. After high school Roger was offered a fully paid scholarship to play football at the University of Alabama, but he turned ... it down to play professional baseball. Although Roger Maris had a lot of accomplishments his greatest one was breaking Babe Ruth's single season home run record. Babe Ruth set the record of 60 in 1927 and his ... any good and some of hi...

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