... install a stricter policy for those who fail, or simply let pass the use of performance enhancing drugs altogether-which they seemingly already do. In order to prevent the use of performance enhancing drugs in baseball, MLB needs to enact a stricter policy for those who fail a drug test. In most sports, the athletes must submit to random drug tests every few months to prove they are obeying ... -analytical findings may have found many more cheaters that were never caught. Does the baseball Hall of Fame hold any cheaters? This question is asked because doping has been a constant in sports...

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... lower levels. When kids saw Mark McGwire break the home 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 say things like that it really effects young kids. If one of the best baseball players is doing to give him the edge in ... school level, should just stop and think about what they are about to do to themselves. First off they are tainting the sport...

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... Tobacco "which is known for increasing concentration "used to be chewed almost universally during games. Amphetamines and other strong hallucinogen drugs have long been rampant in baseball with Dock Ellis famously known for pitching a no-hitter while under the influence of LSD. Based on these accounts, one ... gained a national audience unlike any other sporting event in that decade, and most likely saved the sport as well. According to Alex Smith, front page sports writer for the Cornell Daily Sun: Following the 1994 season, baseball as a sport, was in a slump. Attendance was down and t...

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... viewed better than the rest. But because they are the best, their actions are also scrutinized more so than the rest of society. Athletes grace the sports pages and evening news with their accomplishments in the game and sometimes their charity off field. But athletes are plastered across the front page and evening headlines when they commit crimes. Their private life is ... had taken similar action against Strawberry. Suspension is one punishment, but it is not enough punishment for three similar violations. Strawberry, on three separate occasions, broke the law by having drugs in his ...

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