http://www.baseballplayamerica.com/page4.html ...However, I am glad I sent the 1991 memo to all Major League Baseball clubs. I wished we had done more, but we knew there was no way we could do anything in the middle of the contract."
"The memo I sent was an attempt to be on record that if we controlled the whole thing, this is what we would do," said Vincent. "And we did it, but only for the people that were not covered by the Collective Bargaining Agreement. The steroid issue has been a huge problem in baseball. It was a mess when I was there, and its still a mess. The use of steroids would have been a huge priority if I had continued as commissioner..."
Again, it was not "banned" in baseball... at least to those involved in the CBA. The ones in the CBA are the only ones we really care about.
As far as the Black Sox Scandal, I'm not going to go into anymore because I really haven't read too much about it, nor really care to right now (especially since there seems to be a couple different stories out there). My original point was that 1919 or 1920 or whatever is waaaay before Pete Rose was even born.
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