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Baseball Musings
August 24, 2004
steroid use - how widespread?
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A.J. Brack was a pitcher for the New Haven County Cutters of the independent Northeast League earlier this year. He has ancestors from several generations ago who were from Greece, and thus qualified to play in this year's Olympics for the host country.

Brack tested positive for steroids and was therefore barred from participating in the Olympics.

A.J. Brack was a middle reliever for a lousy team in an independent league, and not even one of the better independent leagues at that! If steroid use occurs at this level - virtually the lowest rung of the professional baseball ladder - how widespread must steroid use be throughout the higher levels?! We'll probably never know unless rigorous testing is enforced throughout Organized Baseball, and frankly, the public does not necessarily have a right to know - the players have their privacy rights - but that is a debate for another day.

Suffice it to say, if players this far removed from the major leagues are using steroids, then the problem might be even more severe as you get closer to the major league level. I wonder.

Jim

Posted by JimStorer at 08:13 PM | Comments (12) | TrackBack (0)