IntroductionHot dogs, apple pie and baseball are the American icons of summer. Baseball is also known as America's favorite pastime. Many children begin playing baseball on the streets, in the schoolyard, or on T-Ball and Little League teams as early as age 3 or 4 and will play well into adulthood. Satchel Paige was the oldest player in Major League Baseball (MLB). He retired at age 59 (Satchel, n.d.). In recent years, America's favorite pastime has lost integrity and is shrouded in a dark cloud of suspicion. Baseball players appear to be superhuman with better batting averages, faster pitches, world records to break, and even their body size appears to be larger. All of these articles have questioned the use of steroids or other performance-enhancing drugs and the enforcement or regulation of the use of these products. One of the most recent cases is that of Milwaukee Brewer's Ryan Braun, among many others. Steroid use is rampant in baseball and players choose to use steroids despite the fact that MLB banned their use in 2001 (Drug Policy, 2014). MLB did not begin drug testing for steroids until March 2003 nor did it institute fines and suspensions until 2005 (Drug Policy, 2014). In 2002 Commissioner Bud Selig and MLB produced a policy to begin testing players in 2003. In 2003, the first year of testing began and despite the new policy, 104 MLB players tested positive for steroids (Schlegel, 2009 ). The U.S. House of Representatives held a hearing to restore faith in America's pastime: evaluating Major League Baseball's efforts to eradicate steroid use. Although government officials had held a similar hearing on the Anabolic Steroid Control Act of 2004 a year earlier, they were back at it. Regretta...... middle of paper ......Baseball Usage: The Impact of Culture. Ethics and Behavior, 21(2), 91-102. doi:10.1080/10508422.2011.551466."The behavioral effects of anabolic steroid use." DUJS online. Dartmouth Undergraduate Journal of Science, April 29, 2012. Retrieved June 8, 2014, from http://dujs.dartmouth.edu/news/the-behavioral-effects-of-anabolic-steroid-use#.U5TTDfmwJ-A.Thompson, Teri et al. American Icon: The Fall of Roger Clemens and the Rise of Steroids in America's Pastime. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. Print. United States Congressional Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. The Mitchell Report: Illegal Steroid Use in Major League Baseball, Day 2: Hearing Before the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred and Tenth Congress, Second Session, February 13, 2008. Congressional Hearing. Washington: US GPO, 2008. Print.