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Re:Dear Chess World by MichaelCollins on Monday September 26, 2022 @05:54PM (#32989061)
The rampant doping got so bad they had a highly publicized congressional hearing about it. I doubt it ever stopped.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doping_in_baseball#Congression...

Re:Dear Chess World by duderific on Monday September 26, 2022 @08:08PM (#32990258)
It may not have stopped entirely, but there are much better safeguards in place, and it's pretty obvious based on power hitting statistics (home runs mainly) that it's not even close to as bad as it was in the 90's and early 2000's. The penalties for getting caught doping are quite high.

Most recently, superstar San Diego Padres player Fernando Tatis Jr. was suspended for 80 games after testing positive for steroid use. [1]

[1] https://www.baseball-almanac.com/legendary/steroids_baseball...

Re:Dear Chess World by umanwizard on Monday September 26, 2022 @05:55PM (#32989072)
True, but IMO doping is much less of an existential threat to the game than computer-assisted cheating is for chess.
Re:Dear Chess World by bombcar on Monday September 26, 2022 @07:29PM (#32989968)
There was also some sign stealing scandal but I didn’t pay much attention.

And the umpires are the dirtiest cheaters of all and always win.