Baseball's Steroid Era

The Mitchell Report: Newly Implicated Players

Posted on December 15, 2007

Here's a list of the 47 players implicated in the Mitchell Report who had not previously been linked to performance-enhancing drugs during the... More »

Alex Rodriguez Admits Using Performance Enhancing Drugs from 2001 to 2003

Posted on February 9, 2009

Alex Rodriguez admitted using a "banned substance" from 2001 to 2003 while playing for the Texas Rangers. Just 48 hours after Sports... More »

The Evidence Against Roger Clemens

Posted on October 20, 2006

In light of the redacted names from the Jason Grimsley affidavit hitting the papers, Roger Clemens entire career has been called into question... More »

Human Growth Hormone - History, Side-Effects, Use in Baseball

Posted on October 30, 2006

Human growth hormone (HGH) is a polypeptide hormone synthesized and secreted by the anterior pituitary gland which stimulates growth... More »

Roger Clemens Fires Controversial Trainer, Brian McNamee

Posted on May 16, 2007

According to the New York Daily News, Roger Clemens has cut ties with long-time trainer Brian McNamee. McNamee did not attend Clemens... More »

A-Rod: The Many Lives of Alex Rodriguez

By Selena Roberts

Rumoured to be on the verge of a personal and professional collapse so profound it would rate as one of the most dramatic falls in major league history. Through exhaustive reporting and interviews, Roberts will detail A-Rod as a plunge-in-progress... More »

The Rocket That Fell To Earth

By Jeff Pearlman

He was supposed to be the next Nolan Ryan: Roger Clemens, the fearless, hard-nosed Texan with a 98-mph fastball and a propensity to throw at the heads of opposing hitters. Yet shortly after his arrival in the major leagues in... More »

Game of Shadows

By Lance Williams and Mark Fainaru-Wada

The two San Francisco Chronicle reporters privy to the BALCO transcripts and court documents published this book outlining the entire BALCO scandal. In it they described the laboratory's supply of 'undetecable designer' steroids... More »

Juiced

By Jose Canseco

Ken Caminiti had already admitted his steroid use to Sports Illustrated, but it was Canseco's book that opened the flood gates. Canseco claimed to have educated and personally injected many players including Rafael Palmeiro, Juan... More »

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The Juice: The Real Story of Baseball's Drug Problems

By Will Carroll

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In The Juice, Will Carroll, an acknowledged authority on baseball's medical problems, calls for a scientific, reasoned approach to the steroid problem. Shunning emotional judgements, he offers a wide-ranging investigation of the drugs, the athletes who use them, the scientific effects and side effects, the testing procedures, and whether drugs have had an impact on the game. He explores the grey area of legal supplements, reviews the law involved in the BALCO case, compares baseball's situation with that of the National Football League, and speculates on the next generation of performance enhancers that may well include gene therapy. In exclusive interviews he profiles the motivations and experiences of professional players, student athletes, drug creators, and those who advocate the legal use of steroids.

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On Writing The Juice (introduction)

I didn't want to write this book.

My pal Tim Marchman, my contact at Ivan R. Dee, first broached the topic to me in early 2004, and I resisted. In the end, my objections led me to the point of putting pen to paper - or, in my case, fingers to the keyboard. I interviewed Alan Schwartz while he was promoting his great book The Numbers Game, and a phrase from that interview changed my mind.

"I wrote the book," he said, "because I wanted to read it. It would have been much easier for me to have gone t the bookstore and bought it, but it wasn't there." Like his history of statistics, the material that follows is something I could not find, yet wanted to see in print.

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"No histrionics, no agenda; just an exhaustive look at steroids.... The most important work of its kind."
--Dayn Perry, FOX Sports

"Our education has begun.. Carroll.sifts through facts and myths and helps understand the layers of performance enhancements."
-- Peter Gammons, ESPN.com

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