Seve RodriguezMrs.CollazoEnglish February 18, 2014Steroids in BaseballSteroids in baseball have always been a great controversy and have sparked many discussions about their use. Almost everyone's opinion on the use of performance-enhancing drugs in any sport, let alone baseball, has been negative. This gives some athletes unfair advantages over others in helping their team win games and break records. The game will never become fair if steroid use continues and strives to be stopped in MLB with the new steroid testing policy it has implemented. Steroids were initially manufactured during World War I to help soldiers suffering from any type of problem. weaknesses to become stronger. Steroids are a substance known to increase performance in anything physical for 100 years now. Steroids were considered and even banned as early as the 1910s during the Olympic Games. The Anabolic Steroids Act was passed in 1990 and places steroids in the same class as other illegal drugs such as amphetamines, methamphetamines, opium and morphine. It was then finally banned in baseball on June 7, 1991. "Major League Baseball Commissioner Fay Vincent stated: "The possession, sale or use of any illegal drug or controlled substance by players or Major League personnel are strictly prohibited... This prohibition applies. to all illegal drugs and controlled substances, including steroids” (Farrey). And since the ban on steroids, their use is still high and everything is being done to stop it. Anabolic steroids are a type of designer drug that aims to copy the effects of the hormone testosterone. This increases the levels of development of male reproductive tissues, which is... middle of paper ... emphasis on stopping steroid use. Since their use began, MLB has tried many things to stop it, from weekly checks to increasingly severe consequences if arrested. Most recently, Major League Baseball investigators used new high-tech tools to gather the evidence they needed to convict some players of steroid use. Alex Rodrigues is one of those players caught. In early 2013, Miami New Times obtained documents from a former Biogenesis employee suggesting that several major league baseball players had tested positive for steroids, including testosterone. (Ross) For this reason, he is now facing a 100+ game suspension. As technology evolves in the fight against steroids, so does the policy adopted by the organization. This is just to make the game as fair as possible and to prevent it from being ruined as a whole..