The Baseball League’s Fight Against Drug Abuse

It is sad but true that over the last Decade there seems to have been a big rise in the number of so called super athletes that have been suspected of enhancing their performance with the help of drugs. Many times there has been a great performance by an athlete only for it to be later suspected of being drug enhanced.

We certainly cannot compare the super athletes of today with those great athletes of years ago that accomplished their great records without any outside influences.

There are a lot of fans that have become disillusioned with today’s stars taking drugs to try to perform better. Many fans of sports such as baseball have now decided to boycott the sport all together.

The latest figures say that Baseball attendances are down a couple of percent overall, and although that may not sound a lot, if you compare it to other sports whose attendances are growing then it is a concern. Obviously no sports organizers like to see reductions in their attendances.

This is one of the main reasons why Bud Selig and his science advisors in Major League Baseball are trying to formulate a blood test to test for human growth hormone. Selig along with many others feel that HGH should be banned completely in sport.

Baseball itself has banned HGH but because it relies on an honor system instead of actually testing players for drug use it does not seem to work as you would expect it to.

Even if any of the Baseball players decided to use enhancement drugs in their quest for a better performance, it is highly unlikely that they are going to be honorable enough to admit using them!

At least we can still look back to the great athletes of yesteryear who managed to excel in their profession, and do it with pride.

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