When a high 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. ... (Yesalis) This is directly related to the professional ranks in which it is believed that 50% of all professional baseball players use steroids. ... Baseball is one of the most controversial sports and is seeing the most use of steroids. ... Another baseball player, Ken Caminiti, admitt...

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• Grade Level: High School

Performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) have a long history in sports according to Sports in America's "Performance-Enhancing Drugs" article. ... The list of professional and amateur athletes who have become involved with PEDs reads like an index: Slugger Barry Bonds (anabolic steroids) who broke Hank Aaron's longstanding record for career home runs in 2007, Alex Rodriguez (human growth hormone or HGH) who signed one of the richest baseball contracts in the history, cyclist Lance Armstrong (performance enhancing drug or PED) who won the Tour De France seven consecutive times, as well as R...

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For instance, the MLB (major league baseball) effectively launched a productive system which stopped players from using steroids after the steroid era and only have a few steroid users in the game today. ... Sports like baseball have had a long history of rampant steroid use and have taken effective action since they first discovered the problem. ... The rules make it so that a strict, steroid free team can play against a team with many players who have a large and colorful recent history with repeated failed steroid tests. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate