NPR: Three Hundred Grim Pages: the Mitchell Report

Three Hundred Grim Pages: the Mitchell Report

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Former Sen. George Mitchell is on television now, his voice hammering out the bad news: Steroids are in baseball -- and how. Mitchell sounds very sure of his investigation, somber, confident, unshakable, really. He's proposing changes to the way Major League Baseball now deals with performance-enhancing drugs.

That will have its place, but for now, for fans of the game, it's a matter of absorbing the charges of which star players now stand accuse of using steroids to excel at the nation's pastime. Roger Clemens, Miguel Tejada and Andy Pettitte are among the big stars Mitchell names. And so, no surprise, is Barry Bonds.

Mitchell addressed the issue of naming alleged steroid users. He said he considered the question of whether to include the names of particular baseball players very carefully. "I concluded that it's appropriate and necessary to include them in this report," he said. "Otherwise, I would not have done what I was asked to do."

For now, here's the report.

Bonus:

An Olympian's view of steroids

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Laura Conaway

2:09 PM ET | 12-13-2007 | permalink

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