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__**The Affect Of Steroids In The MLB**__

Steroids have been in major league baseball for many years but recently in the 90's Steroid blew up and became one of the hot topics for major league baseball which was the "Steroid Era." So how did steroid affect the major leagues? Steroids affect baseball in many ways but the three reasons I really think steroids affect was your health, the MLB record books and the outcome of a season.

One of the biggest ways Steroids affect the Major Leagues was by affecting somebodies health. It affects the health in a horrible way for example there was this MLB player named[| "Ken Caminiti"]. He was taking Steroids and he overdosed and passed away. Steroids can also give you a bunch a health problems for instance you can get [|liver damage, lower sperm count, feel aggression and increase body testosterone]. Lastly steroids will hurt your private parts when you have to [|use the bathroom.]
 * __Health__**

Another affect steroids had on Professional baseball was steroids affected the record books. One way steroids affect the record books was the [|home run record by Barry Bonds], a lot of sources say Barry Bonds used performance enhancement to hit the most HRs in a career. This fact I find interesting, during 1920-1998 only [|2 guys hit for 60 or more HRs "Roger Maris" and "Babe Ruth"] (One of the two best guys in MLB history). Now during the 90's when steroids became big during 1998-2001 in 4 years, 6 times 3 guys hit for 60 or more home runs and all 3 of those guys were positive for using Steroids. Lastly steroids also [|affect the hall of fame votes]. So for instance if you had a Hall of fame career and used steroids voters won't really vote for you like Mark McGwire.
 * __Record Books__**

Lastly Steroids can have a huge affect on the outcome of a season. For instance the "04" World Series[| Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz] both test positive for steroids the year before that and both players hit big HRs to win the world series. Another example of steroid affecting the outcome of a season is the [|4 championship the Yankees won during the 90's], most of the important player on that team were on steroids. Another way steroid affect the outcome of a season is award won. Roger Clemens was on steroids for most of his career and won [|7 CY Young's and even 1 MVP] which he probably didn't deserve because of his steroids habit.
 * __Outcome of A Season__**

Steroid became a big thing during the 90's and affect tons of things such has the home run record by Barry Bonds, the outcome of a season such as the World Series or MVP winner and also most important steroids affects your life so don't take steroids because its not worth dying to be the best in the game.
 * __Conclusion__**