Steroid
use in baseball has come into the national spotlight during
the 1990s. It was during this time that home run records were broken at
incredible pace. It was also during this period when several famous
baseball players
began spilling the beans, so to speak, about
steroid
use in baseball. The most controversial expose about steroid use in
baseball is perhaps that of Ken Caminiti in 2002. Caminiti, who died in
October 2004, had admitted publicly that he was
using steroids when
he won the National League’s Most Valuable Player in 1996 and in the
several seasons following that. This revelation has highlighted the
issue of steroid use in baseball.
From then on, the professional baseball league is under constant
scrutiny from public as well as from the federal agencies. Many had
criticized
Major League
Baseball as slow in its efforts to address the issue of
steroids use in pro baseball. When the
BALCO
incident exploded in late 2003 and implicated big names in baseball,
the public and the Congress demanded answers from baseball key players.
It was then that steroid use in baseball had sparked media frenzy and
legislative inquiries. It was also then that it was finally
acknowledged that
steroid
use was prevalent in baseball.