Hall of ShameBaseball has always been known as “America's favorite pastime.” Over the past decade, the game America knows and loves has revealed itself to be a game full of cheaters. Over the past fifteen years, Major League Baseball (MLB) has had more than one hundred players test positive for performance-enhancing drugs. Performance-enhancing substances increase a player's ability to produce better statistics to help his salary. The last fifteen years of baseball have seen the dirty play of some of the best players to ever play the sport. Children across America look to these athletes as role models. Money-hungry players proceed to send a terrible message to fans of the game by taking drugs to succeed. After commissioner Bud Selig cracked down on steroid use in 2005, the legacies of several baseball players were ruined due to the steroid allegations. Players are even charged with perjury for lying to Congress about using steroids to protect their reputations. Steroids in baseball must be stopped immediately before the game is ruined. Steroids are not fair to players who play the game the way it should be played, without needles. Steroids are ruining the fairness of the game of baseball and the credibility of the athletes who participate in it. Nowadays, if someone hits fifty home runs in a season, everyone thinks he's in his prime. “The Steroid Era” and Bud Selig ruined the image of baseball as a clean and fair game. The issue of performance-enhancing substances in baseball has mostly been around for the past decade. The reason players take steroids is simple: By taking steroids, hitters like Barry Bonds have gained more strength to hit better averages and more home runs, while pitchers like Roger Clemens have gained better stamina... middle of the paper... ..the sport continues to earn a reputation as a cheat's game. Steroids are unfair to players who worked hard every day to achieve Hall of Fame status, without performance enhancers. MLB must eliminate drug use to regain the trust of the fans who love and respect the game. The game has had a dirty ten years and needs to re-establish its reputation as a fair league. Obviously fans love watching their favorite player hit over sixty homers in a season, but not if it's ultimately 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 arise in the next few years to cloud the possibility of another star in Cooperstown? Baseball will only regain credibility when steroids are no longer present in any player.