Single Season Homerun Record Research Paper

I am still a strong believer that the single season homerun record belongs to Roger Maris, who in 1961’s season hit 61 home runs, and set a stage that has not been replicated with legitimacy, meaning without the aid of steroids and other PEDs. There was actually a movie created about Maris’s 1961 milestone, called 61* The three players that have broken Maris’s record were all on the influence and use of anabolic steroids (Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire). Sosa knocked sixty-six home runs in the 1998 season, which originally broke the record, then Mark McGwire swooped in and bettered Sosa’s total by four, leaving McGwire at seventy flat. Barry Bonds his seventy-three home runs three seasons later leaving the single season home run record …show more content…
I do not believe the players that use PEDs think about the fact that they are stealing opportunities from other players who would have legitimately surpassed these records. Baseball is called the hardest sport for a reason, because hitters fail seven out of ten times and still are considered the best in the world. Baseball is so tough mentally and frustrating, but the only way to face the adversity is to overcome it and to not let it control the energy of the dugout and to keep pushing forward and having 18-30 players come together as one, in order to win the game. It is a game of honor and integrity, and the players that use PEDs to gain an edge on their competition are diminishing this integrity and honor of the game. It is insulting to the game, and as an aspiring college baseball player, I take heavy offense to players using steroids. I know the discouraging feeling of having opportunities taken from me, and I know the amazing feeling of taking an opportunity given to someone else because I worked harder for that