The day after former Senator George Mitchell released his damning report on performance-enhancing drugs in Major League Baseball last December, President George Bush, a former baseball-team owner himself, seemed to speak for many disgusted fans when he pronounced, “Steroids have sullied the game.” The Impact of the Mitchell Report on Baseball Ethics The Mitchell Report fingered 89 professional ball players, but many of these allegations were nothing new for baseball watchers. Game of Shadows , a 2006 exposé by a pair of investigative journalists, and Juiced , a 2005 tell-all memoir by player José Canseco, described a world of professional baseball rife with performance-enhancing drug abuse.…