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Of the 10 players, six - Barry Bonds, Alex Rodriguez, Mark McGwire, Manny Ramirez, Rafael Palmeiro and Gary Sheffield - have been linked to PEDs. Between 19, 10 more players reached 500 career home runs, easily the largest increase in membership in baseball history. But it wouldn't be long until Murray had company. In 1996, Eddie Murray became the 15th member of the 500 home run club, and the first since Mike Schmidt in 1987. The 500 home run club remains one of baseball's most prestigious groups, though the increased offensive totals of the 1990s and 2000s have taken some luster off membership. The home run heroics of the 19 seasons were called into question as McGwire, Sosa and Bonds were among a group of major leaguers linked to the use of PEDs in the following years. He also hit his 500th career home run that season, and reached the 600 HR mark just a season later. Bonds notched 73 homers despite failing to reach the 50-home run plateau in any prior season. McGwire's record stood for only three years, as Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants hit 73 home runs to top the majors in 2001. Androstenedione was not illegal at that time in Major League Baseball, however, which had yet to institute a testing program for many substances. In 1998, McGwire and Sosa shared the 'Sportsman of the Year' honor from Sports Illustrated.ĭuring the 1998 home run chase, McGwire had admitted to using androstenedione, a substance that was banned by the National Football League and the NCAA.

The home run onslaught captured the attention of the country and helped to reclaim popularity for the league four years after a strike had shortened the 1994 season. Sosa finished second in the NL in home runs with 66, 26 more than his previous season high.

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McGwire went on to finish with five home runs in his team's final series to reach 70 for the season. By the final week of the season, Sosa had battled back to draw even with McGwire at 65 home runs. In a series in early September against Sosa and the Cubs, McGwire hit his 61st and 62nd home runs of the season to surpass Maris' number. Late in the season, it seemed inevitable that both Sosa and McGwire would break Maris' 37-year-old record, and it was just a matter of who would get there first. The move set the stage for a memorable season when he and Sammy Sosa of the Chicago Cubs battled for the National League home run title, during a year in which 13 different major leaguers hit at least 40 home runs. Midway through the 1997 season, McGwire was traded to the St. threatened the individual record of 61 - set by Roger Maris in 1961 - before ending the season with 58 and 56 home runs, respectively. In 1997, both McGwire and the Seattle Mariners' Ken Griffey Jr. In 1996, Mark McGwire of the Oakland Athletics led the majors with 52 home runs despite missing part of the season. While just three players reached the 50-home run mark in any season between 19, many sluggers would start to surpass that number in the mid-90s. Increased offenseĭuring the 1990s, Major League Baseball experienced an increase in offensive output that resulted in some unprecedented home run totals for the power hitters of the decade. After years of allegations, a federal investigation into The Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative (BALCO) - which provided supplements to several prominent major leaguers - and later Jose Canseco's autobiography 'Juiced' revealed how widespread PED use had become in baseball.

The lack of testing meant it was unlikely players using PEDs would get caught. Though steroids have been banned in MLB since 1991, the league did not implement leaguewide PED testing until 2003. Unlike other MLB 'eras,' there is no defined start or end time to 'the steroids era,' though it is generally considered to have run from the late '80s through the late 2000s. 'The steroids era' refers to a period of time in Major League Baseball when a number of players were believed to have used performance-enhancing drugs, resulting in increased offensive output throughout the game.

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