The trend of big names in baseball getting accused for use of steroids is continuing with Sammy Sosa being the new name. The baseball slugger was identified by the New York Times as having tested positive for a performance-enhancing drug in 2003.

This continuing trend is bothering sports officials and fans equally and there could be just hopes that this long-staged drama ends soon.

From Sportsillustrated.CNN.com:

Sosa’s entry into the Hall of Fame was very much in doubt even before Tuesday. The weight of circumstantial evidence and buzzing among baseball people in and out of uniform always did engender heavy suspicion, even before his 2005 demureness in front of Congress. Naivete would be in order to think someone who corked bats and competed passionately for individual records and glory against Barry Bonds and McGwire in an age with no enforceable drug rules in place would draw a self-imposed line at using steroids — just as his body transformed into a hunk of musculature.

At the age of 28, Sosa was a career .257 hitter who slugged .469 and who hit one home run every 19.4 at-bats. He was a decent enough player. But over the next six years — from 1998 through 2003, the last year you could juice without penalty — Sosa hit .302, slugged .635 and hit one home run every 10.6 at-bats. He hit more home runs in those half dozen years than Hank Greenberg, Gary Carter or George Brett hit in their entire careers. He became one of the all-time greatest sluggers ever, or so we were led to believe.

To the baseball fans and community, the news of Sammy Sosa getting involved with steroids is not a shocker to say in the real sense as many other eminent names have already fallen and identified in the trap of steroids.

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