A timeless sport woven in the fabric of America, baseball is the "National Pastime." In one of the darkest sports scandals in history, major performance-enhancing drug use has been reported and proven, as time and time again well-known athletes fail drug tests. While the scandal has already made baseball in the public a dicey situation, it endangers more than just reputation in the future. The effects of performance-enhancing drugs in baseball are the jealousy among …showed first 75 words of 1077 total…

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