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- 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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No exact dates
- A time of increased offensive production from PED use
- Ended around 2003 with the implementation of league wide PED testing -
(1986-2007)
- 14 time all star
- All time leader in Home runs (762)
- OBP .444
- Failed many PED tests -
(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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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.
