The truth is that Mark McGwire used anabolic steroids and said he used legal pro hormones, but did he do anything wrong? As it turns out in the 90s, anabolic steroids were NOT banned from baseball (MLB), so why is Mark McGwire still being question about steroid use? That’s because steroids are being used as a scapegoat for real problems.

However, couldn’t MLB, baseball in general, test for steroids for it’s athletes? wouldn’t that be easy? yea it would, but maybe there is a reason steroid use was allowed.

For one glorious summer, Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa chased Roger Maris’ single-season home run record.

At a time when Major League Baseball was suffering through a popularity hangover from the 1994 work stoppage, McGwire and Sosa were the perfect tonic. Thousands of fans showed up at ballparks hours early just to watch McGwire take batting practice.

Before Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa people were not going to see baseball, the most boring game ever invented without Beer! Baseball Stadium attendance was down about 50%, but whoa! once Mark McGwire starting to hit huge home runs, wow there we got attendance is up. Anabolic steroids helped baseball stay alive and not die.

“The suicide squeeze is cool, and the double steal is all right,” a Time magazine cover story began, “but a guy who can smack the bejeezus out of a ball — that’s the guy for us.”

When McGwire hit his 62nd homer on Sept. 8, 1998, a low line drive that barely cleared Busch Stadium’s left-field fence, he set off a celebration across the country. By season’s end, Sosa also eclipsed Maris’ magical mark.

McGwire finished with 70 home runs. Sosa hit 66. Baseball had never seen anything like it.

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