Performance Enhancing Drugs in BaseballIntroductionPerformance enhancing drugs are taking over the sport, and I'm here to make a difference. Did you see all the stories about sports centers a few months ago? About Alex Rodriguez and Lance Armstrong for doping and PED use. How does the use of PEDs affect society and baseball? I will raise funds to make a difference in my community and help young athletes understand that it is not necessary to use steroids or "drugs" to improve their athletic performance.BackgroundSports players are beginning to resort to different ways to help them play better or to become stronger. And one of the most effective ways at the moment is the use of PEDs. They use them because they are weaker than their opponents. But even though they make you stronger and give you an advantage over everyone who doesn't use them, they ruin lives and make people view you differently as a person. Elite athletes use them to help them win and/or perform better, for example seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong, who was arrested for "doping" in order to be stronger and have more endurance than his other opponents. Then, Alex Rodriguez claimed he used steroids to help him recover from his hip surgery. But in reality, it helped him keep hitting the ball even when he was trying to recover from his injury, but he continued to use them once he recovered. And the clinic where he and twenty-seven other professional baseball players got them. When he and Lance were arrested, they always denied it. They lost a lot of respect in the community because the big performances weren't really based on raw skill and years of training. "A potent cocktail of sophisticated PEDs stacked together to deliver...... middle of paper ...... EDs and I are trying to educate young people so they don't follow in the wrong footsteps and get banned of the sport that they love, and so they won't do exactly what their role model does because sometimes what they do isn't always the best. But I'm excited to go out and make a difference in my community. .that we educate young athletes not to get involved in these drugs, so that they do not ruin their lives and go down the wrong path Steroids can eventually lead to other drugs and mess up again. more their lives. Works CitedSharp, Andrew. "The Biggest Problem with PEDs in Professional Sports." Rodriguez of "the most powerful and sophisticated" of all time." Daily News. New York Daily News, January 15, 2014. Web May 2. 2014.