Steroids in Major League Baseball
Chad Robinson
6/27/13
English 1A G. Gelegan
Super Athletes
What if athletes in Major League Baseball suddenly transformed into super athletes? It would create a whole new level of excitement for the fans and media. From professional cycling to major league baseball, performance enhancing drugs are used illegally. A person using steroids is able to recover from a workout and build muscle two to three times faster than a person who is completely natural (Ali). Athletes are illegally using these drugs because physically, they are able to make incredible improvements in speed, strength and endurance (Ali). Professional sports have outlawed these drugs because there is an unfair advantage over the rest of the field. Serious punishments are handed out to the athletes that are found guilty of doping, but that hasn’t slowed down the athletes from using steroids at all (Smith). This is why professional sports should legalize steroids and performance enhancing drugs, but only in moderation. In the late 1990’s Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa shocked the baseball world with two of the most memorable baseball seasons in baseball history. Both baseball players were hitting more homeruns than the game of baseball had ever seen in the 1998 and 1999 seasons (Smith). McGwire shattered the single season homerun record and fans were more excited than they had ever been. Many people say that McGwire and Sosa saved the game of baseball. Baseball stadiums were selling out every game and fans were buying merchandise more than ever before. Not long after that in 2001 Barry Bonds from the San Francisco Giants broke Mark McGwire’s record by hitting 73 homeruns in a single season. In August, 2007, Barry Bonds would go on to break the all-time homerun record set by the great Hank Aaron. Until December, 2007 major league baseball took a major blow.
An investigation known as the Mitchell report came out with a list containing 80 players that were linked to anabolic
6/27/13
English 1A G. Gelegan
Super Athletes
What if athletes in Major League Baseball suddenly transformed into super athletes? It would create a whole new level of excitement for the fans and media. From professional cycling to major league baseball, performance enhancing drugs are used illegally. A person using steroids is able to recover from a workout and build muscle two to three times faster than a person who is completely natural (Ali). Athletes are illegally using these drugs because physically, they are able to make incredible improvements in speed, strength and endurance (Ali). Professional sports have outlawed these drugs because there is an unfair advantage over the rest of the field. Serious punishments are handed out to the athletes that are found guilty of doping, but that hasn’t slowed down the athletes from using steroids at all (Smith). This is why professional sports should legalize steroids and performance enhancing drugs, but only in moderation. In the late 1990’s Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa shocked the baseball world with two of the most memorable baseball seasons in baseball history. Both baseball players were hitting more homeruns than the game of baseball had ever seen in the 1998 and 1999 seasons (Smith). McGwire shattered the single season homerun record and fans were more excited than they had ever been. Many people say that McGwire and Sosa saved the game of baseball. Baseball stadiums were selling out every game and fans were buying merchandise more than ever before. Not long after that in 2001 Barry Bonds from the San Francisco Giants broke Mark McGwire’s record by hitting 73 homeruns in a single season. In August, 2007, Barry Bonds would go on to break the all-time homerun record set by the great Hank Aaron. Until December, 2007 major league baseball took a major blow.
An investigation known as the Mitchell report came out with a list containing 80 players that were linked to anabolic