Kaiser
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Where are you now getting ten years from?
1993 was the year that abnormal stats began to appear, with guys like Sammy Sosa and Barry Bonds taking crazy jumps in their stat lines. From 1993 to the first "unofficial" testing in 2003 is ....without checking fingers and toes.... ten years.
1998 was the year of the McGuire and Sosa HR race and steroids were a huge part of the discussion, but MLB advertised the competition day and night because they were raking money in from the ratings.
1996 was the year Brady Anderson went from a part time CF hitting 3 or 4 HR per year to a guy hitting FIFTY. I watched a Saturday national guy that year where all of the color commentary was about trying to explain that, with the party line from MLB that it was because they were using balls with different stitching.
That was 8 years before they actually tested anyone with punishment attached, it went only for a long, long time with the tacit approval of MLB because they were making a ton of money off it.