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The rampant doping got so bad they had a highly publicized congressional hearing about it. I doubt it ever stopped. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doping_in_b

• School-Cotton 4y ago
  True, but IMO doping is much less of an existential threat to the game than computer-assisted cheating is for chess.
  • bombcar 4y ago
    There was also some sign stealing scandal but I didn’t pay much attention. And the umpires are the dirtiest cheaters of all and always win.
• duderific 4y ago
  It may not have stopped entirely, but there are much better safeguards in place, and it's pretty obvious based on power hitting statistics (home runs mainly) that it's not even close to as bad as it was in the 90's and early 2000's. The penalties for getting caught doping are quite high. Most recently, superstar San Diego Padres player Fernando Tatis Jr. was suspended for 80 games after testing positive for steroid use. [1] [1] https://www.baseball-almanac.com/legendary/steroids_baseball.shtml https://www.baseball-almanac.com/legendary/steroids_baseball...