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Everyone has seen or heard the home run records being broken, players being called involved in certain investigations, before congress to testify or being named in tell-all books. It has created a controversy in baseball with the records that have fallen and players that have tested positive for steroids. When Roger Maris hit 61 homeruns in 1961 no one thought it would ever be broken. In 1998 that all changed, when both Mark McGuire and Sammy Sosa both eclipsed that mark with McGuire hitting 70. That didn't last long cause three years later Barry Bonds hit an improbable 80 homeruns. Now Bonds is treating to break Hank Aaron's all-time homerun record of 755. It has been stated that there is enough of a major steroid problem in baseball that Congress needed to step in. When Albert Conte was indited in the BALCO case he named several players that he either gave steroids personally or gave them to the players trainers. Barry Bonds, Garry Sheffield, and Jason Giambi are just a few......

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