... 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 that extra edge. That is the case a lot of times, no matter what sport you are talking about. The reason it is so scary to see in young athletes is because, they think ... like that it really effects young kids. If one of the best baseball players is doing to give him the edge in the pros, then they believe that they need and edge at their level of play. They will work hard for that edge even if that means sacrificing their b...

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... its popularity would surely be on the rise. Baseball today is characterized as a sport dominated by players who cheat to gain any sort of competitive edge, and justifiably so. The rewards are monetarily limitless in a sport like baseball where there is no salary cap. In his article, Should Baseball Give ... Cornell Daily Sun: Following the 1994 season, baseball as a sport, was in a slump. Attendance was down and the sport frankly lacked an edge. That all changed during the summer of 1998 though with the home run chase between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa. Fans flocked to ballparks around...

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... uses for anabolic steroids, then, are for physical strength and improved appearance. 3 Why the rave? Most will claim that steroid use comes from the desire to gain that elusive competitive edge. Our athletes want to be better than their peers so that they may reap the benefits of being the best. Other users are competing in a contest of physical appearance. They ... they had in fact used steroids at some point. The female, however used them for medical purposes. The male is a college athlete who uses them to try to gain that "edge" discussed earlier. Ironically, of all the people interv...

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