Hall of ShameBaseball has always been known as "America's Favorite Pastime." Over the past decade, the game America knows and loves has been exposed as a game filled with cheaters. Over the past fifteen years, more than a hundred Major League Baseball (MLB) players have tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs. Performance-enhancing drugs increase a player's ability to produce better statistics to increase their salary. The last fifteen years of baseball have been marked by dirty deeds from some of the best players of all time. Children across America look up to these athletes as role models. Money-hungry gamers are sending a terrible message to fans of the game by taking drugs to succeed. After Commissioner Bud Selig cracked down on steroid use in 2005, several baseball players' legacies were ruined due to steroid allegations. Players are even accused of perjury by lying to Congress about steroid use in order to protect their reputation. Steroids used in baseball should be stopped immediately before the game is spoiled. Steroids aren't fair to players who play the game the way it's supposed to be played, without syringes. Steroids are ruining the fairness of baseball and the credibility of the athletes who participate in it. These days, if someone hits fifty home runs in a season, everyone thinks they're in the "juice." The “Steroid Era” and Bud Selig ruined baseball’s image as a clean and fair game. The issue of performance enhancing drugs in baseball has been most prominent over the past ten years. The reason players take steroids is simple: By taking steroids, hitters like Barry Bonds gained more strength to hit better averages and more home runs, while pitchers like Roger Clemens gained better endurance. .. middle of paper ... ..the sport continues to gain a reputation as a cheaters' game. Steroids are not fair to players who have worked hard every day to achieve Hall of Fame status, without improving their performance. MLB must eliminate drug use to regain the trust of fans who love and respect the game. The game has had a dirty last ten years and must reestablish its reputation as a fair league. Sure, fans love watching their favorite player hit sixty-plus home runs in a season, but not if it ends up ruining the fairness of what was once a clean game. Selig needed to end the "steroid era" seven years early to save the reputations of Hall of Fame caliber players. Who knows what steroid allegations will surface in the next few years to tarnish another all-star in Cooperstown? Baseball will only regain its credibility when steroids are not present in any player.