Logan Withers Mr. White English 38-101 5 November 2014 Steroids Can’t Be Allowed In The Hall of Fame Often referred to as gym candy, juice, pumpers, stackers or just roids; anabolic steroids have changed the image of baseball. Not only have steroids ruined the image of a baseball, steroids have removed the previous respect held by the public. Alex Rodriguez, Ryan Braun, Manny Ramirez and many other notable players have all tested positive for performance enhancing drugs, yet many revere them as among the best. Baseball has undoubtedly evolved from a sport with integrity and honesty, into a sport that is forced test its best players repeatedly just to keep a respectable image for the public eye. Since baseball has been impacted so severely by …show more content…
Two of the best players on the team, Clemens and Pettitte, had major contributions to the teams success. If a team achieves a title or championship during a time span where more than one the players were caught doping, it must be revoked to keep the sport clean. Looking solely at Roger Clemens, the best pitcher of the Steroid Era and also possibly the meanest. According to the New Pittsburgh Courier, Brian McNamee his personal coach “...injected him several times with steroids from 1998 through 2000, when he played for the Toronto Blue Jays and the Yankees.” Roger Clemens won 7 Cy Youngs during his career 4 of which came came from ages 34-44, and he won 2 World Series (1999 and 2000). So in the time span that Clemens was given the steroids, he won his only two World Series. This goes to show that teams with doping players need to be revoked of their championships and pennants because if their players are cheating then they are cheating and the use of steroids will not …show more content…
The best of the best are inducted. Assuming the inductees prior to the Steroid Era are drug and PED free, the players who aren’t PED and steroid free should be kept out in order to keep an all around equal opportunity for everyone. As Debate.org states; “The Baseball Hall of Fame presupposes that someone is a good player but also a fair player. And someone who takes a performance enhancing drug is not playing fairly. The field has been made uneven without anyone knowing it. So players who do that should not find themselves in the Baseball Hall of Fame.” Inducting players who are known to have injected or juiced would ruin the overall meaning and devalue the appreciation the natural players receive when nominated. Even though many players haven’t been inducted since their exposure, they have been elected to be voted for. This has made outraged people, including Matt McHugh and Spencer Walling from the Aragon Outlook who