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National Baseball Hall of Fame
- Player needs a 75% vote from baseball writers to be inducted
- 317 members, 7 currently suspected of performance enhancing drug use
- 5 year grace period
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The Steroid Era
No exact dates
- A time of increased offensive production from PED use
- Ended around 2003 with the implementation of league wide PED testing -
Barry Bonds
(1986-2007)
- 14 time all star
- All time leader in Home runs (762)
- OBP .444
- Failed many PED tests -
Roger Clemons
(1984-2007)
- Pitcher
- 7 time CY Young award winner
- 11 time all-star
- 354 credited wins
- 3.12 career ERA
- Third most strikeouts of all time
Known steroid user -
Juan Gonzalez gone from HOF ballots
Jim Reeves - Former Player
- A voter for the Hall of Fame
- PEDs were a death Knell
-Integrity and Character for Hall of Fame
http://www.espn.com/dallas/mlb/story/_/id/7446551/specter-steroids-doomed-juan-gonzalez-hall-fame-hopes -
Hall of Fame Voters Confront the Steroid Era and Its Questions By: Tyler Kepner
Neutral Source
- Discussed both sides of the argument
- didn't choose a side, rather gave us a few examples from both sides
- “there are no right answers.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/28/sports/baseball/steroid-era-players-pose-difficulty-for-hall-of-fame-voters.html -
Cheating in Sports: A Moving Target
Against Performance Enchancing Drugs (PEDs)
users being inducted into Hall of Fame Jose Antonio Tijerno - Hispanic Heritage Foundation
- Domino Effect on next generation
- Children take what they learn from sports and apply it to different areas of life
- These players lack integrity and character
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jose-antonio-tijerino/cheating-in-sports-a-movi_b_2468088.html -
Why I'm abstaining from HOF voting By: Buster Olney
Pro PED Users in Hall of Fame
- One of the most prominent baseball writers of this topic
- Hall of Fame is a shrine of baseball’s history
- Mike Mussina
- “is his career worthy of the Hall of Fame?”
- No hall of Fame ballot
http://insider.espn.com/blog/buster-olney/insider/post?id=8805 -
MLB Hall of Fame 2015: Time to open the doors to Steroids Era stars Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens By: Steve Politi
Pro PED Users in Hall of Fame
- Barry Bonds
- Roger Clemons
- No Proof
- Judgements based on no facts
- the stats of some players are so much better than Hall of Famers
-Museum of baseball history
http://www.nj.com/yankees/index.ssf/2015/01/mlb_hall_of_fame_2015_time_of_open_the_doors_to_these_two_steroids_era_stars_politi.html -
2017 Hall of Fame Election Election
Jeff Bagwell and Ivan Rodriguez join Ryne Sandberg, Cal Ripken, Paul Molitor, Mike Piazza, and Tony Gwynn as the only players elected to the Hall of Fame with suspicion of PED use.
