Baseball's Steroid Era

Convicted steroid/human growth hormone dealer, Kirk Radomski, has provided government investigators with a receipt for a shipment sent to Roger Clemens? Houston home in 2002 or 2003. Radomski said the package contained two kits of human growth hormone. "The investigators knew from day one that I sent a package to Clemens' house. They knew before the Mitchell report was released and before Brian ...

Colorado Rockies minor league catcher Humberto Cota was suspended for 50 games after testing positive for a performance-enhancing drug. Cota was penalized under the Major League Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program, even though he has not been on a major league roster since June 15 2007, when he was released by the Pittsburgh Pirates. The reason he was suspended under the MLB plan rather ...

As ordered by U.S. District Judge Susan Illston, the government reentered their indictment of Barry Bonds for perjury and obstruction of justice stemming from his testimony during the BALCO grand jury in 2003. View the new indictment (PDF) here. When prosecutors first entered the indictment, it contained 19 alleged false statements spread over 4 counts or perjury along with one count of ...

San Francisco Giants minor league catcher Eliezer Alfonzo was suspended 50 games for testing positive for a performance enhancing substance, the first player penalized in 2008 under Major League Baseball's drug prevention and treatment program. Alfonzo was on the Giants? 40-man roster so he falls under the major league program even though he has played all season at Triple-A. He played 113 games...

Major League Baseball and the Player?s Association have once again agreed to amend MLB?s Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program. Most of the changes are derived from recommendations put forth by Senator George Mitchell in the Mitchell Report. The most glaring omission was the refusal to turn over testing to an independent outside agency. Instead the sides agreed that the ?Independent ...

Atlanta Braves prospect Jordan Schafer has been suspended for 50 games for using human growth hormone (hGH) under the minor league drug policy. It is believed that Schafer was caught as part of an investigation by Major League Baseball?s Department of Investigations, an investigative group formed this past January after being recommended by Senator George Mitchell in the Mitchell Report. ...

Jose Canseco?s new book, Vindicated: Big Names, Big Liars, and the Battle to Save Baseball, was officially released on April 1, 2008. There were very few surprises after Joe Lavin acquired and wrote about the book on March 25. For the most part, the book chronicles Canseco?s life since Juiced was published in 2005. It describes the book tour (for Juiced, of course), the Mitchell Report, the ...

Jose Canseco?s second novel, Vindicated: Big Names, Big Liars, and The Battle to Save Baseball, is set to be released April 1, 2008. In Juiced, Canseco claimed to have injected Mark McGwire, Rafael Palmeiro, Ivan Rodriguez and Juan Gonzalez with anabolic steroids among his stories about performance enhancing drugs in baseball. The details of Vindicated have slowly been coming out as the ...

The New York Times is reporting that the United States attorney?s office for the Northern District of California is investigating whether or not Dr. Ramon Scruggs illegally prescribed performance-enhancing drugs to patients including some Major League Baseball players. Scruggs was implicated in the Albany based investigation into the distribution of anabolic steroids and human growth hormone ...

More and more prominent players are coming forward saying they support blood testing in Major League Baseball. Some were even in favor of giving samples to be frozen until a reliable human growth hormone test is available. Both MLB Commissioner, Bud Selig, and Players Association president, Don Fehr, have said they will consider such a test when one becomes available. There is currently no ...

At a hearing in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, Judge Susan Illston ruled that the indictment put forth by the government was vague and needed to be redrafted. In the course of the hearing the judge also ordered that the full transcript of Bonds? 2003 grand jury testimony be unsealed. Judge Illston ruled that the indictment need not contain multiple statements that the government believes ...

Congress has officially requested that the Department of Justice investigate whether or not Roger Clemens lied under oath during his deposition dated Feb. 5, 2008 and the Congressional hearings on February 13, 2008 when he denied using performance-enhancing drugs. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman Henry Waxman and ranking Republican Tom Davis sent a letter to Attorney ...

These are all of the evidentiary documents made public by the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform following the congressional hearings. TestimonyOpening Statement of Chairman Waxman (488 KB) Testimony of Roger Clemens (21 KB) Testimony of Brian McNamee (24 KB) Roger ClemensCommittee Deposition of Roger Clemens (421 KB) Roger Clemens Injury Report (1 MB) Results of Roger Clemens ...

The New York Times is reporting that Jose Canseco wanted Magglio Ordonez to invest in a movie project in exchange for leaving him out of Canseco?s upcoming book, Vindicated. Canseco was reportedly trying to raise funds for a documentary based on his first book, Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big. José Canseco, the former major league slugger and admitted ...

George Mitchell, Bud Selig and Donald Fehr testified before a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee reviewing Major League Baseball?s performance enhancing drug problem. The hearing was held to discuss the findings in the Mitchell Report and MLB?s progress in fighting performance enhancing drugs since the last congressional hearings in 2005. The most surprising moment came early on ...