Author: Dr. Steroids

This collection of quotations aims to contain the most poignant, controversial, and historically significant quotes from Baseball’s Steroid Era. The quotes, which focus on famous steroid and hGH users or the controversy in general, are delivered by some very influential officials of Major League Baseball, the players, the government, scientists, and the media. Greg Anderson “The whole thing is, everything that I’ve been doing at this point, it’s all undetectable. See the stuff I have, we created it, and you can’t buy it anywhere else, can’t get it anywhere else, but you can take it the day of (the test),…

Baseball had undergone major changes in the 1990’s most notably the labor strike that wiped out the World Series and brought revenue sharing and a luxury tax. Baseball had survived and was more exciting than ever, the 50-home run season was back, but the players always seemed to be hurt. Between 1992 and 2001 the number of players on the DL rose from 352 to 465, a 32% increase. Days spent on the DL went from 17920 to 27779. Players were also hurt more severely. Days spent on the DL per injury increased 55% over that span. According to Jucing…

A list of the performance- enhancing drugs mentioned, and presumably used, during Baseball’s Steroid Era. These drugs include steroids, steroid precursors (prohormones), steroid masking agents, and stimulants. Most common names for drugs are listed first. Anavar (Oxandrolone, Lipidex, Anatrophill, Lonavar) Medical Use: Steroid used to expedite wound healing and in treatment of hepatitis, cancer, and AIDS wasting. Also used to treat children with growth deficiencies. Performance-Enhancing Use: It builds strength and muscle mass, aids workout recovery. Generally considered to be the safest of all steroids. Side Effects: Similar to other anabolic steroids, but to a much lesser degree. Very few…

A partial transcript of the ‘illegally obtained’ wiretap of Barry Bonds’ trainer, Greg Anderson, describing his steroid experience and peticularly Bonds’ steroid use. This transcript contains all the published parts of Anderson’s voice from a recording made by an acquaintance in the spring of 2003. The excerpts are in approximate chronological order. On how athletes sometimes injure themselves injecting steroids. “What happens is they put too much in one area and, what it does, it will actually ball up and puddle and what happens is it actually will eat away and make an indentation and it’s a cyst. It makes…

A chronological list of the major events of Baseball’s Steroid Era including legislation, Congressional Hearings, the BALCO scandal, steroid user admissions, and the implementation of Major League Baseball’s testing program. This timeline lists events as they were made public. Nov. 18, 1988 – Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 This law amended the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act and created criminal penalties for persons who “distribute or possess anabolic steroids with the intent to distribute for any use in humans other than the treatment of disease based on the order of a physician.” Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988, Pub. L. No.…

The information in this list summarizes news reports linking these players to steroids, steroid precursors, human growth hormone, or other drugs banned by MLB (excluding amphetamines). Use the links below to jump to an explanation of each player’s involvement in the steroid era. In the Mitchell Report section, the page number refers to the page in the report that describes the evidence concerning each player. The number in parentheses is the page number in the PDF version available online. For the most up-to-date and detailed list, see Baseball’s Steroid Era’s Players Linked to Steroids and Human Growth Hormone (HGH). Implicated…

1971-1978 – Tom House House said that he used steroids during his eight-year Major League career, though he wasn’t specific about which years. House estimated that “six or seven pitchers on every staff were fiddling with steroids or hGH” while he was playing. Tom House also says that steroids were rampant in the 1960’s. This comment represents the earliest date that steroids were implicated in baseball. While this time-frame seems reasonable, House was still in the minor leagues at that time. 1985 – Jose Canseco Canseco, in his book, Juiced, says he began using testosterone and Deca-Durabolin during workouts in…

Robert K. Adair’s The Physics of Baseball covers everything in baseball from the trajectory of a curveball to batter reaction time to fundamental bat vibrations. Adair provides an equation relating bat speed to player weight: V = k sqrt(M/(m+M/81)) Note: V is the velocity of the bat in miles per hour, m is the bat weight in pounds, M is the player’s weight in pounds, sqrt means square root and k is a constant, 10, in mph. In an article on ESPN.com by Patrick Huber, entitled 616*(*No Asterisk Required), he relates Adair’s formula to Bonds. According to Adair’s formula –…

What will happen when players like Barry Bonds, Mark McGwire, Rafael Palmeiro, and Sammy Sosa become eligible for the Hall of Fame? The Baseball Writers Association of America, who elect the members of the Hall, are questioning the achievements of Steroid Era players and their place in history. In the case of Barry Bonds, not only does it appear that he used steroids and other drugs to inflate his statistics, but years of lying about it to Major League Baseball, the fans, and the U.S. government have taken the damage to a new level. Most writers agree that Bonds would…

I started to go in for different sports when I was young and lived in Spain: my specialty was athletics m 5000, then I went on with swimming and dives, then due to a problem with my ear-drum I had to stop with them. So I tried to practice free climbing, but I could not stand to remain very thin and I stopped with it definitively. I went in for fighting sports and I have practiced kick boxing for 2 years. I premise I am very fond of these kind of sports and I have been practicing them nowadays too.…