STEROIDS EFFECT ON AMERICAN CULTURE

By Brandon Paquin

Intro to steroids• They help when working out, helps get ripped faster• Causes baseball players to look super human• Supposedly brought into the game by Jose Canseco• Caused over 150 baseball careers to be ruined and statistics to

be tainted• Very easy to get ahold of and be able to be used

GAME O N IN TERN ET THAT IS AN EXAMPL E

“Juiced” internet game is a small example of what steroids were like in baseball.

http://www.loglod.com/game/3647/Baseball-Juiced.html

The Mitchell Report• Over 150 players were in the report for using• Players such as David Ortiz, and Manny Ramirez were listed• Gave the fans closer that their role models were cheaters and

liars

Barry Bonds / Roger Clemens

Both men clearly used steroids according to multiple reports

Bonds went from a skinny kid to a huge muscular home run hitter

Clemens was always big but it was apparent he used when he was throwing well over 95 mph at age 40

Both men now are out of Hall of Fame and are in court for lying to grand jury

Proof of Bonds and Clemens• Barry Bonds Roger Clemens

Baseball on trial

Many players after lying about steroids were put on trial

Players such as Mark McGuire, Rafael Palmeiro, and Sammy Sosa

How it effected America• Fans are seeing their sport heroes in court and are no

longer role models• Can lead into more and more people using steroids and

putting more people in legal trouble• Once the steroid era began it won’t end because their will

always be pressure on athletes to succeed and they will do anything to succeed.

Players before / After steroids

Jason Giambi Mark McGuire

What I Learned

The amount of players usingThe amount of players still using that aren’t

caughtHow it was so easy to obtain the steroidsHow teams had steroid pills out on tables like

candy

WHY I CHOSE IT

• I chose this topic because it was something I knew a lot about and it was something I wanted to research more about.