Editor 's note : A nationally syndicated columnist , Roland S. Martin is the author of `` Listening to the Spirit Within : 50 Perspectives on Faith '' and `` Speak , Brother ! A Black Man 's View of America . '' Visit his Web site for more information . Roland S. Martin says it 's time to get over the fact that baseball turned a blind eye to steroid use . ( CNN ) -- I loved baseball as a kid . I still have fond memories of my siblings and me , members of the `` Astro Buddies '' club , heading to the Astrodome , the eighth wonder of the world , to watch the Houston Astros play . I played the game in elementary and high school . But now , I 'm sick of it , especially when steroids are brought up . The latest baseball drama surrounds a New York Times report quoting two lawyers who say that former Chicago Cubs slugger Sammy Sosa 's name was on a list of players who tested positive for an illegal substance in 2003 . The list supposedly contains more than 100 names of players who tested positive that year . This report comes on the heels of Alex Rodriguez of the New York Yankees admitting that he used performance-enhancing drugs a few years ago ; Manny Ramirez testing positive and suspended for 50 games ; and the continuing drama surrounding Roger Clemens . All three were considered locks for the Hall of Fame . But based on what we keep hearing , that 'll never happen in this holier-than-thou era . OK , got it . Baseball had a terrible drug problem . Now they have a drug testing plan in place that has some teeth in it . So , can we just move the hell on ? Seriously , I 'm tired of rehashing the drama . As a sports enthusiast , I would love nothing better than to think that athletes in baseball , football , basketball or any other sport are as pure as heroes from yesteryear . But cheating is cheating . It has been around from Day One , and if a player thinks he can get an edge , well , it 's a good bet some will try to get it . Sosa has always been suspected of using drugs , but now that two lawyers say they saw his name on the infamous sheet , he has gone , according to Rick Telander 's column in the Chicago Sun-Times , `` from hero to zero . '' But you know what ? I do n't care . Can we just all accept the fact that all of baseball -- players , management , owners , the unions -- turned a blind eye to performance-enhancing drugs ravaging the sport ? And they did so because baseball was on its way to being comparable to the National Hockey League or soccer in the U.S. -- irrelevant to sports fans . After the strike in 1994 wiped out the World Series , fans were angry and did n't give a lick about the sport . But then came 1998 and the home-run derby put on by St. Louis Cardinal Mark McGwire and Sosa , both trying to break the record of 61 homers in a year set by Roger Maris of the New York Yankees . Fans were riveted by the hitting prowess of the two , and people were following their every at-bat . I was working at KRLD-AM in Dallas , Texas , that summer , and we would break into programming to broadcast the call of their at-bats when they were about to break the record . Yea , everyone had Sosa-McGwire fever . Baseball became relevant again . The players redeemed themselves , management was happy to say they worked for the sport , and the owners were delirious because the money came rolling in . So there we have it . All of baseball pulled a Robert Johnson , as in the legend of the classic blues singer who supposedly got his gift for music by making a pact with the devil . Or maybe more like Judas . The sport turned in its integrity for a few pieces of silver . Let 's just accept this as a fact , acknowledge those were the dark days and move on . It 's just tiring to keep going back to what happened then . It 's done . It 's over . So let it go . The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Roland S. Martin .
Roland S. Martin : Baseball was in the doldrums until 1998 home-run race . Martin : Mark McGwire-Sammy Sosa race to break home-run record stirred interest . Martin says baseball had a terrible drug problem . He also talks about how steroids were used by players and coaches, but he doesn't mention that they are banned from MLB now.