Friday, November 18, 2005

Steroids in baseball

ESPN: The Magazine has printed an interesting article about the prevalance of steroids in baseball over the past 20 years or so. There's some interesting passages about steroid use by Lenny Dykstra and Dave Hollins, teammates on the Phillies in the early 90s.

The author also write about how Peter Rose considered using steroids but ultimately decided against it at the end of his career when he was losing bat speed. The article mentions an outfielder on the Reds in 1986 who showed up at training camp that spring with an extra 30 pounds of muscle due to steroid usage. I looked at Baseball-Reference.com in an attempt to determine the identity of the outfielder. I think he must be referring to either Eric Davis or Dave Parker, the only two power hitting outfielders on the team.

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