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Sports & Recreation > Baseball (Other) Has steroid testing changed anything in Major League Baseball?

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Chick dig the long ball. That was the phrase that paid during Major League Baseball's so-called Steroid Era of the last 15 years. Players got larger from their use of performance-enhancing drugs and home runs numbers skyrocketed. Fans saw a dramatic shift in the way the game was played - away from a sport that relied on speed and strategy, to one that looked more like a beefed up beer league softball game. The stolen base, it seemed, had become a lost art as teams stood around waiting for the three-run homer which inevitably came. Players like Dave Roberts and Juan Pierre, who in the 1980s...

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