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Originally Posted by YAZMAN
Try the 1980's. I believe this poster was from 1988:
They were juicing in Oakland, definately. I played college baseball from 1985-1988, and played both with and against guys that I had first hand knowledge were training with steroids. If college players were "smart" enough to be using them for a competitive advantage, you can bet your butt the pros were both aware of them and using.
I still can't believe Bagwell's name has never come up. |
It's come up, but not in any formal report. It really doesn't matter who got named in t he report, except to those individuals who were named. They got burned, but too damn bad. The use of the stuff was rampant during those years. It was ridiculous when you started seeing middle infielders like Boone and Tejada growing 20 inch necks and hitting one-handed Home Runs to the opposite field. The whole era was dirty.