NPR: Help Blog the Mitchell Steroids Report

Help Blog the Mitchell Steroids Report

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We'll drop one more excerpt from the Mitchell report on steroids in baseball, this one also from the chapter, on page 109, titled "Unreported Incidents." We invite you to read the report and nominate bits for excerpting in the comments.

Now, a last excerpt from us:

At the end of the 2004 season, a clubhouse employee was cleaning out the Detroit Tigers locker room when he found a black toiletry kit that was locked. He and another Tigers employee opened the bag and found unused syringes and vials that they determined were anabolic steroids. They did not report the incident. The employee said that he could not remember who the bag belonged to.

Bonus: NPR draws conclusions from the Mitchell report.

Laura Conaway

2:38 PM ET | 12-13-2007 | permalink

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"[While] the current program has been effective in that detectable steroid use appears to have declined . . . many players have shifted to human growth hormone, which is not detectable in any currently available urine test." (p. 43)

Would be interesting to know how HGH compares to anabolic steroids in its ability to enhance muscle strength.

Sent by Will G | 10:29 PM ET | 12-13-2007

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