The former major leaguer and a two-time National League most valuable player, Dale Murphy, is all set to make the game of baseball clean. Murphy has been making every possible effort for ensuring that impressionable pint-sized sluggers don’t imitate their “steroid-taking” heroes.
It was remarked by Murphy that success is not an issue for existing and potential players who disapprove use of anabolic steroids and performance enhancing drugs.
From NYtimes.com:
Murphy, who now lives in Alpine, Utah, started the organization in 2005 when performance-enhancing drugs were making news. It was in March of that year, for instance, when the former St. Louis Cardinals slugger Mark McGwire refused to answer questions before Congress about steroid use during his playing career.
“It really started with the steroids issue in baseball,” Murphy said in a telephone interview. “We were just sitting around, some of our friends, we just started talking, maybe we should just send another message out there because the perception of the kids is that everybody is taking this.”
Little League added the patch to World Series uniforms two years ago, giving the message more visibility. Little League does not test tournament players for drugs, but there are no regulations that stipulate whether local leagues can or cannot test.
Murphy is currently on a mission to motivate budding players to avoid shortcuts through his I Won’t Cheat Foundation.
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