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Sammy Sosa And Willie Mays: A Summary
In this writing the author talks about how enhancement performing drugs have gone unnoticed in the MLB until the MlB started to crack down and do drug test on every player.
The writer then goes on by giving a lot of examples of players and the type of drugs they used to give them the edge some examples would be like Sammy Sosa and Willie Mays. Then the author goes on to talk about how today's superstars have really good lawyers and they know how to use the news media and they have a lot of money so the only way to punish them is to take away their Hall of Fame rights. The Author then talks about how performing enhancement drugs can't kill baseball but the cover up is what could be fatal. The last thing the writer talks about is how these drugs
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