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DylanAmphetimine use was rampent in baseball during the 40's, and 50's. And use has continued to this day(they only started testing for it last year, because they knew how widespread use was). Amphetimines have been shown to improve athletic performance, reduce recovery time, and has shown a significant increase in muscle performance and cariovascular output. Ofcourse these are short term effects(4-8 hours) if used prior to an athletic event. So if you want to accost todays athletes for steroid use PLEASE dont ignore what yesteryears athletes were doing to gain any advantage available to them as well. It seems most everyone is willing to ignore this fact, and refuse to respond to this point. If you want to keep todays athletes out of the HOF for perfomance enhancing drug use then it would only be fair to investigate players of prior decades for the same thing. I dont want this, i know what baseball is and never expected it to have a squeeky clean image. Tests are finally being done, lets move on, and this will all go down in history as an abberation years later. If we hold people out of the Hall of Fame there will always be a discussion like Shoeless Joe and Pete Rose not being in the Hall. Lets put it all behind us and hope baseball learned from its past.