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MLB Steroids Scandal: 50 Named in Mitchell Report
Posted Dec 12, 2007 12:16 PM CST
By Martha Neil
Updated: A much-awaited report on steroid use in Major League Baseball will be released tomorrow, and it reportedly will identify at least 50 current and former players who may have cheated on the game with steroids, stimulants and human growth hormone.
Apparently, former Sen. George Mitchell, a former federal prosecutor who now practices at DLA Piper (and chairs the megafirm's "global board"), did all that baseball commissioner Bud Selig asked when he appointed him in 2006 to look into the issue—and perhaps even a bit more than anticipated. He compiled a report over more than 20 months that unnamed league officials characterized as harsh, according to the New York Times.
League lawyers are reviewing, but not editing, the report prior to release, to determine whether there have been collective bargaining agreement violations, reports USA Today.
Mitchell said earlier this year that he is trying to do two things, reports the N.Y. Daily News: "One, to provide as complete a picture as possible of events that occurred with respect to the use of performance-enhancing drugs in Major League Baseball, and secondly to make recommendations that will enable Major League Baseball to learn from that and to increase the likelihood that they will not be used, that they will not be a significant factor in the future."
Two ABAJournal.com articles posted more recently than this one provide additional details from the Mitchell report and a Dec. 13 press conference and further discuss Major League Baseball steroids issues. The latest also links to this National Post newspaper article listing players named in the Mitchell report.
Updated at 2:50 p.m., CST, Dec. 13, 2007.
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Comments
Harry Spore
Dec 19, 2007 9:22 AM CST
This report named quite a few baseball players that are considered ‘locks’ for the HOF. One is Barry Bonds (not surprising); others are Roger Clemens and Andy Pettite. Bonds is under indictment for lying to Congress. Of the others, the former denies the allegations and the latter accepted responsibility.
My problem is - nobody is giving Mark McGwire any slack for his ‘non-answer’ during the hearings. If anybody SHOULD have come up in this report, considering the way he was demonized in the media and in HOF voting last year, it was he. However, his name wasn’t mentioned by anybody besides Jose Can’suck’o in any conversation about steroids. Considering the fact that Canseco thought he was ‘da man’ for all those years but was FAR overshadowed by McGwire’s accomplishments, I’m not surprised he tried to make Big Mac’s accomplishments seem less ‘honorable.’ I know not all of the ‘dopes’ that juiced were included in this report, but since they seemed to go after quite a few home run kings in this report, why not the guy that broke the 30+ year old record? Because they couldn’t find anything but some has-been, steroid-abusing, wife-beater’s word for it, that’s why.
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