Performance enhancing drugs in Major League Baseball (MLB) is the prime focus of my Commonplace paper. It's the most celebrated example of sports where performance enhancing drugs have been a major issue. I will touch on performance enhancing drugs in other sports, and raise some questions, but the focus will probably be on MLB because it's timely.
Baseball home run totals from 1990-2007 were extremely high. They were much lower every year previous to 1990, and have also been lower since 2008, when testing became common for performance enhancing drugs.
Ticket sales and television ratings in 1998 were extremely high for MLB when there were record numbers of home runs being hit. Ticket sales and televisions ratings are down now. MLB profited highly from the home runs being hit 1998 and other surrounding years, but did nothing in terms of investigating the players who were using the drugs. These players are made out to be villains now, yet MLB knew there was something going on a long time ago. If a large percentage of MLB players were taking the drugs to compete with each other, does that make all of the said players "cheaters"?
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