How To Avoid Cheaters In Major League Baseball

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Major League Baseball fans are definitely one of its most significant stakeholders. The fans generate the income that allows the MLB and its players to exist. If players use performance enhancing drugs it affects fan’s trust, thus nobody likes cheaters in the game. When the Mitchell report went to the public, maximum of fans were disappointed to see that some of their favorite athletes are cheaters. Moreover, fans will not be interested to come to the stadium and watch games where there is no integrity of the game. For instance, in 2009 CBS News/New York Times poll in which 60 percent of fans said it matters to them "a lot" if baseball players use PED’s,… other 32% said the players records should be eliminated from the record books (Memmott).

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