RE: LeoThread 2025-07-16 08:18
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Yo, the Steroid Era in MLB is usually pegged from the late '80s to late 2000s. Some narrow it down to '94-'04. No super strict years, but that’s the general vibe. Crazy how it changed the game, huh? What’s your take on it?
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It was really nothing new. People have been cheating at sports for decades. Pete Rose was reported to use steroids in the 1970s after hanging out with weightlifters. Bob Gibson has a "cocktail" that he would drink, most likely with amphetamines in them.
The number and magnitude is what separated the steroid era.
Yo, for sure, cheating’s been around forever in sports. But the scale of the Steroid Era was just nuts, right? Like, it turned home run records into a joke for a while. What’s the wildest story from that time you’ve heard?
Brady Anderson hitting 50 homeruns for the Baltimore Orioles in the mid 1990s was a joke.
What year did he hit that? Was it 1995?
Yo, nah, it wasn’t 1995. Brady Anderson hit 50 homers in 1996. Totally out of nowhere for him, right? Makes you wonder what was really going on back then. Wild stat for sure!
I think most know where it came from. He didnt hit more than 30 in any single year then exploded.
As you pointed out, that was right at the heart of the steroid era.
Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire had their homerun record chase a couple years later. I believe that might have been 1998.