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Baseball is America’s well-loved sport and fans all over the country look forward to every season’s opening day. Never mind if a seat or a souvenir would cost them their hard earned buck. It’s the sport dads would want to teach their children and young athletes emulate their baseball heroes. But some players decided to take baseball to the next level, their competitive streak pushing them to win every game. Each wants to make a mark in baseball history by getting voted into the Hall of Fame. These dreams had driven some to the point of taking steroids or performance enhancing drugs at the price of their reputation and their career.

The steroids controversy dominated the headlines since the George Mitchell report had unearthed some baseball icons who had been using them since the 1990s. Sports Illustrated printed a story about Alex Rodriguez whose drug test results had leaked when it was supposed to remain confidential. Jose Canseco’s book named more “heroes” guilty of doping. Baseball had become so tainted that fans are getting concerned.

One of them is Lucas Swineford who is encouraging fellow fans to give to charity any amount or time they would devote to watching or being involved in baseball on April 17, Friday. This is in form of protest against players who have taken performance-enhancing drugs. Swineford’s actions were motivated by the report he heard over the radio about A-Rod’s interview with Peter Gammons.

From Connecticut Post:

“I was driving in the car and I heard some highlights from the Alex Rodriguez interview with Peter Gammons after he admitted he took performance-enhancing drugs,” Swineford said. What stoked his anger was Rodriguez saying he had to take performance enhancers to deal with the pressure of his $250 million contract.

“I almost drove off the road,” Swineford said. “That’s pressure to you? Watch the news. People are struggling to pay the mortgage and keep the lights on. That’s pressure.”

Angry as he was, Swineford, who works in digital media with Yale University, decided there had to be something positive to come Advertisement out of all the negative publicity over steroid use in baseball.

Swineford is asking fans to donate $13 to a charity of their choice — or one of the 13 listed on the Web site. “That’s half the price of the average ticket to a game,” he said. It’s also Rodriguez‘ number.