Baseball Public Relations

Baseball PR

A popular and fan favorite baseball player is being investigated for using steroids

and/or other performance enhancing drugs. I have been asked to represent him as he is faced

with these challenges, but there are aspects to the case I need to take into consideration before

accepting this challenge. While it does not build character within a player, there are other cases

involving the same situation however it does inhibits social interaction, and he has admitted to

taking some unknown substance.

"When Ken Caminiti, a former Most Valuable Player in the National League, admitted to

Sports Illustrated in June 2002 that he used anabolic steroids during his award-winning season,

mainstream newspaper journalists reported the revelations heavily, with many calling for

changes in policy and the introduction of drug testing" (Harvard Journal 2006). Since then, the

Major League Baseball collective bargaining agreement has put drug testing into place. It is a

random act that no player can see coming. The number of baseball players taking any type of

steroids, HGH, and/or performance enhance drugs is more than we are willing to admit. There

are players taking performance enhance drugs in other sports as well, so baseball is not the only

sport that is being affected. Drug testing athletes is a step that needs to be taken in order to

promote values, character, and behavior of those whom look upon these athletes.

It is not uncommon for players to take performance enhancing drugs to improve their

skills on and off the field but where do you draw the line? "It is generally permissible for

athletes to ingest non-muscle building dietary supplements that facilitate athletic performance

such as carbohydrates, electrolytes drinks, energy bars, vitamins, and minerals- and they often

encouraged to do so. Even the use of creatine as a muscle-building substance currently is not

considered to be doping or an improper means of athletic performance enhancement" (Harvard

Journal 2006). The use of steriods however is considered a performance enhancing drug and

should