The Black Sox Scandal vs Steroids: Which Was a Bigger Baseball Sin?

Posted: 2nd March 2010 by Christopher Murphy in MLB
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On the one hand, you have the throwing of the 1919 World Series by eight players, which acts negatively and selfishly toward the team, fans, and everyone surrounding baseball. However, although the thought process of steroids could be to support one's team, in most cases it's just as selfish and used by ego-maniacs in search of personal glory. On the other side of things, the White Sox were throwing a World Series for a bigger cause; to revolt against a cheap owner in the form of Charles Comiskey. Regarding steroids, there was no real bigger cause. Although you can argue the cause was to help a team win, the counter argument would be that the big name steroid users didn't really win, minus Mark McGwire and Jose Canseco (Canseco only played 67 games the year the Athletics won) in 1 ...

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