"I'm sure my father would be very disappointed in the direction things have taken, not just in baseball, but in all of professional athletics," Sharon Robinson told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Friday. "He was a four-sport letterman at UCLA. He managed to go from a track meet to a baseball game in the same season and have to perform in both places — and he never would have thought about using any kind of artificial enhancement in order to make that happen.

"We live in a culture that has to change. We have to deal with it. Whether it's social drugs or performance-enhancing drugs, you can't deny it. You have to deal with it head on it and move on."

Sharon Robinson was a 6-year-old when her father retired from baseball in 1956 almost a decade after becoming the first black player in the major leagues. She became active in baseball in 1997 as the sport celebrated the 50th anniversary of Jackie Robinson's debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers and she went on to help develop educational programs based on her father's principles for Major League Baseball.

She said she believes commissioner Bud Selig is determined to clean up the sport.

When asked if she thought baseball once turned a blind eye to steroid use, she smiled and said: "I don't know if I'm allowed to say that. So let's just move on."