Zócalo Public SquareCould We Have Kept A-Rod Off Drugs? – Zócalo Public Square https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org Ideas Journalism With a Head and a Heart Mon, 21 Oct 2024 07:01:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Could We Have Kept A-Rod Off Drugs? https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2014/03/19/could-we-have-kept-a-rod-off-drugs/ideas/up-for-discussion/ https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2014/03/19/could-we-have-kept-a-rod-off-drugs/ideas/up-for-discussion/#respond Wed, 19 Mar 2014 07:01:51 +0000 Zocalo https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/?p=53018 For decades, major league baseball players have been doing drugs of various sorts to improve their performance: amphetamines that got players amped up for games and through the long season in the 1970s and 1980s, anabolic steroids that bulked up home-run sluggers to set new records in the 1990s and early 2000s, and today’s performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs)—which come in cream, pill, and lozenge form, and promise to keep athletes a step ahead of the competition (and the drug testers). The drugs change, but widespread drug use seems to be constant. In advance of the Zócalo/Arizona State University event “Have Drugs Changed Baseball Forever?”, we asked baseball watchers: Besides stricter regulation and increased testing, what changes—cultural, economic, or political—might reduce the use of PEDs in baseball?

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