Sports Media Influence on the Legacy of Major League Baseball's Steroid Era
Location
Guzman 111
Start Date
4-19-2018 4:00 PM
End Date
4-19-2018 4:15 PM
Student Type
Undergraduate
Faculty Mentor(s)
Mairi Pileggi, Ph.D. and John Duvall, Ph.D.
Presentation Format
Oral Presentation
Abstract/Description
This paper explores multiple published books, articles, and documentaries that explain the Steroid Era, a period in Major League Baseball from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s that changed how people view baseball and how it impacts the players’ Baseball Hall of Fame status. The sources, however, use different kinds of rhetoric and perspectives to examine the impact of performance-enhancing drugs (PED’s) on the game of baseball as an enterprise. Other articles and books define the legacy of PED users differently; nonetheless, this paper analyzes the language of statistics and prose of sports writers, broadcasters, television hosts, and anyone else involved in sports media to come up with their truth of the matter. All sides of the Steroid Era should be studied to form a fair and objective opinion of whether PED users should allow induction into Hall of Fame legacy. As someone who is a passionate baseball fan studying sports media and aspires to become a baseball journalist, this era of baseball is what I was first exposed to watching as a child.
Sports Media Influence on the Legacy of Major League Baseball's Steroid Era
Guzman 111
This paper explores multiple published books, articles, and documentaries that explain the Steroid Era, a period in Major League Baseball from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s that changed how people view baseball and how it impacts the players’ Baseball Hall of Fame status. The sources, however, use different kinds of rhetoric and perspectives to examine the impact of performance-enhancing drugs (PED’s) on the game of baseball as an enterprise. Other articles and books define the legacy of PED users differently; nonetheless, this paper analyzes the language of statistics and prose of sports writers, broadcasters, television hosts, and anyone else involved in sports media to come up with their truth of the matter. All sides of the Steroid Era should be studied to form a fair and objective opinion of whether PED users should allow induction into Hall of Fame legacy. As someone who is a passionate baseball fan studying sports media and aspires to become a baseball journalist, this era of baseball is what I was first exposed to watching as a child.