How Did Barry Bonds Use Steroids In The Hall Of Fame

No Steroids in the Hall of Fame Performance enhancing drugs (PEDs), are substances that are used to improve any form of activity performance in humans. The steroids era of baseball refers to a period of time in Major League Baseball in the late 1980s through the late 2000s. This was when a number of players were believed to have used performance-enhancing drugs, resulting in increased offense production throughout the game. The statistics produced by the players using PEDs were unlike any other era in Major League Baseball. Some of baseball’s biggest sluggers at the time were under the microscope when the news of steroid use became popular. Jose Canseco, Alex Rodriguez, Barry Bonds, and Mark McGwire were possibly the biggest headlining names during the steroid era in baseball. Since using performance enhancing drugs in baseball is considered cheating, then the players who tested positive for PEDs should be excluded from the baseball Hall of Fame.

The year is 1998, Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa are competing to beat the all time record of home runs in one season. Roger Maris set the record of sixty-one

Barry Bonds made his debut in the Major Leagues in 1986, just as Mark McGwire did. Bonds also started as an average home run hitter just as McGwire did. That was until 2001, when Bonds hit seventy three home runs to top the major league record in single season home runs, originally held by Mark McGwire. This was after Bonds did not even reach fifty home runs in his in a single season in his career. He also went on to hit his five hundredth career home run that season, and reached the his six hundredth home run just a season later. In baseball today, Mike Trout is known as one the games biggest hitters. It took him four hundred and ninety three games to reach one hundred home runs. During his steroid using period, Barry Bonds hit one hundred and twenty two home runs in just two hundred and ninety six