Steroids in Baseball
Steroid usage ran rampant in Major League Baseball during the 1990s and even now. Several of the sport’s top players including Barry Bonds, Gary Sheffield, Rafael Palmeiro, and Jason Giambi have either admitted to using steroids or have been accused of abusing a banned substance during their career. Throughout my paper, I plan to define what types of substances are recognized as steroids by the MLB and why exactly these substances are illegal not only in baseball but also in general. After defining what steroid usage is, I will prove that recent steroid abuse by Major League players __has caused a major problem__. In order to better establish my point, I will bring up issues such as, legitimate records being broken by suspicious players and fan disproval of the sport.
Much of my support will be based on Barry Bonds and the records he has broken in the past few years. Bonds is probably baseball’s most recognized player and he is also the player under the most scrutiny. Although he has never admitted to using steroids, thousands of people throughout the country believe that Bonds has indeed administered anabolic steroids during his career due to his drastic body type change in the late ‘90s and early ‘00s. Steroids have turned the game of baseball in the wrong direction; what once was “America’s pastime” has become a drug-infested slug fest for many outrageously muscular hitters. Therefore, I will conclude my paper with a proposal that Major League Baseball should drastically improve its steroid policy in order to bring the sport back to its wholesome beginnings.
Preliminary Sources
http://www.mlb.com
http://www.espn.com
http://www.cbs.sportsline.com
http://www.wikipedia.org
http://www.dictionary.com
http://www.nida.nih.gov/Infofacts/Steroids.html
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