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In December 2009, Sports Illustrated named baseball's steroid scandal of performance-enhancing drugs as the number one sports story of the decade of the 2000s. [2] The current penalties, adopted on March 28, 2014, are 80 games for a first offense, 162 games for a second offense, and a permanent suspension ("lifetime ban") for a third. [3]
The period of time, usually placed sometime between the late 1980s and late 2000s has been dubbed the "Steroid Era" by some authors, due to allegations of increased steroid use among MLB players at this time. [12] In Steroids and Major League Baseball, the "Pre Steroids Era" is defined as running from 1985 to 1993, while the "Steroids Era" runs ...
Major League Baseball's drug policy prohibits players from using, possessing, selling, facilitating the sale of, distributing, or facilitating the distribution of any Drug of Abuse and/or Steroid. Any and all drugs or substances listed under Schedule II of the Controlled Substances Act are considered drugs of abuse covered by the Program ...
Sosa finished his 18-year MLB career with 609 home runs and won the 1998 NL MVP award with 66 homers, finishing second to Mark McGwire's 70 in that season's historic home run race.
Sosa, who was one of the stars of baseball in the 1990s, has long been accused of using steroids throughout his career, as many baseball players did during that time.
Sosa, 56, hit 609 career home runs, good for ninth on the MLB all-time list. But as dominant as he was, his legacy has Former Chicago Cubs Slugger Sammy Sosa Admits to ‘Mistakes’ in Apology to ...
In a 2010 interview with ESPNDeportes.com in Puerto Rico, Gonzalez said players' legacies will forever be questioned after Jose Canseco wrote in 2005 that he introduced several players to steroids and PEDs and former Sen. George Mitchell produced a report for Major League Baseball in 2007 about the use of banned substances in the game.
“Everybody and their brother were using steroids, but not everyone was breaking the home-run record," David Segui says. Nightengale's Notebook: Ex-MLB slugger says sticky substances have more ...