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In seven pages this paper analyzes the use of performance enhancing drugs in baseball and how they have forever changed the way the game is played. Seven sources are listed in the bibliography.
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larger-than-life professional baseball players that provided a much-needed escape from the harsh realities of everyday life. Young boys fantasized of growing up like their favorite baseball heroes and dreamed
of one day playing the sport with the same talent and flourish as their idols. While true aficionados of the sport delight in watching the prowess of a pitcher
who is able to accomplish that rare feat of throwing a no-hitter, it is the hitting - especially home runs - that equally mesmerizes both die-hard fans and those watching
a baseball game for the first time. Babe Ruth was the first and most legendary of the home run hitters. Known as the Sultan of Swat, Ruth and
his New York Yankees teammate Lou Gehrig would keep fans on the edges of their seats as each would try to outdo the others home run performances. But back
when Ruth and Gehrig were slugging it out, home runs were an anomaly, coming around once for about every 90 or so at bats (Rader and Winkle, 2002, p. 1).
While Ruths legendary 714 home runs was considered a sacred record, when Atlanta Braves slugger Hank Aaron hit number 715 on April 8, 1974, everyone knew what they were
doing on that memorable moment. By the 1990s, however, it appeared that baseball "had become a new game" (Rader and Winkle, 2002, p. 1). Seemingly overnight, baseball players were
losing the slim physique of the earlier accomplished hitters like Stan Musial or Ted Williams (Rader and Winkle, 2002). Instead, they began looking more like beefy, muscle-bound professional football
players (Rader and Winkle, 2002). In 1996 Mark McGwire, then of the Oakland As, slammed 47 home runs even though he played in a mere 112 games (Rader and
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