Steroids in Baseball

Feb
16

Barry Bonds Testicles and His Mistress’ Nude Playboy Pictorial

Barry Bonds has denied intentionally using anabolic steroids when he played baseball. The federal government wants to prove he is lying about his steroid use and they are using millions of dollars of American taxpayer money to prove it.

Their star witness may very well be Kimberley Bell, the former mistress of Barry Bonds. Bonds attorneys feel that if Bell is allowed to talk about their client’s head size, testicular size, and his temper, then it is only fair to allow jurors to see her nude Playboy pictorial. Bell appeared in the November 2007 issue of Playboy.

The government doesn’t like this and wants Playboy barred from the courtroom. [Read more…]

Feb
13

Jose Canseco Avoids Steroids in His Third Book

Jose Canseco, the self-proclaimed “godfather of steroids” in baseball, is working on his third book. The increasingly prolific writer is going to avoid discussing anabolic steroids and performance-enhancing drugs and focus on himself. The book is tentatively entitled “The Truth Hurts” and deals with how Canseco’s revelations about steroid in baseball affected him personally, professionally and financially. [Read more…]

Feb
10

Texas Rangers and Taylor Hooton Foundation Team Up to Fight Steroid Abuse

The non-profit Texas Rangers Baseball Foundation announced a new partnership between the Texas Rangers and the Taylor Hooton Foundation for Fighting Steroid Abuse to educate high school students about the side effects of anabolic steroids. [Read more…]

Jan
31

Mike Piazza Used Steroids Based on Back Acne According to Sportswriter

Murray Chass continues to assert that “back acne” is conclusive proof of anabolic steroid use in Mike Piazza – and Barry Bonds. Chass noticed acne on Piazza’s back several years ago and has been convinced that Piazza was a steroid user ever since.  While acne on the shoulders and back is often a side effects experienced by steroid users, most people who experience this problem do not use steroids; many steroid users, depending on the selection of steroids and individual susceptibility, don’t experience this side effect. Consequently, acne is a very poor method of determining whether an individual uses anabolic steroids due to the high number of false positive and false negatives. [Read more…]

Jan
19

When Steroids Came to Baseball and Destroyed the Integrity of the Game… in 1889

Jose Canseco may like to be credited as the man who introduced anabolic steroids to baseball.  And sportswriters may like to blame Patrick Arnold as the evil chemist who ruined baseball with the nefarious scheme to cook up designer steroids in his Illinois lab.  But the truth is that anabolic steroids have been used long before either Canseco or Arnold were linked to the modern-day steroids in baseball scandal. If anyone is worried about an admitted steroid user finding their way into Major League Baseball’s Hall of Fame, well it’s a little too late for that.

The first baseball player to use steroids for performance-enhancing purposes has been documented as taking place over one hundred years ago. [Read more…]

Jan
08

Steroids and Corruption in Dominican Republic Baseball Factories

The Dominican Republic is an incredible baseball powerhouse with a solid talent base from which Major League Baseball (MLB) has been eager to tap. Almost a quarter of MLB players are from Latin America and the overwhelming majority of those hail from the Dominican Republic. This type of demand makes the Dominican baseball community particularly susceptible to exploitation by scouts, trainers and buscones who seek to profit by developing baseball talent. Steroid abuse, age falsification and bonus kickbacks have long been problems in the Dominican Republic. [Read more…]

Jan
05

Steroid McCarthyism Keeps Jeff Bagwell Out of the Hall of Fame

Former Houston Astros Jeff Bagwell was denied entrance to the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame as “steroid McCarthyism” reared its ugly head. Bagwell’s statistics are worthy of the Hall of Fame but, unfortunately, Bagwell’s career has been tainted by the “steroid issue.” [Read more…]