Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth said he is...

Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth said he is optimistic that major league baseball will be “virtually a drug-free sport” this season.

Ueberroth vowed that drug problems will be eliminated because “baseball players are idols of millions of kids.”

He predicted at a news conference:

“Baseball is going to--this year--put on the field of play virtually a drug-free sport. . . . We will flat get rid of it; it’s gone.”

The players themselves are the key to eliminating drug abuse, Ueberroth said.

“The overwhelming way we’re getting rid of it is peer pressure from the great players,” he said before a fund-raising speech for a business school building at Fresno State.