A book "Cooperstown Confidential" claims Mickey Mantle used steroids.
Yeah, I know, people will believe anything. Here is an execerpt from an article about the book.
Cooperstown cannot lock out Steroids Era
Oh, and Cobb was a racist so he shouldn't be in the Hall either.
(from the article, book written by Zev Chavets-wonder what his background is??)
Yes, that's right. Mickey Mantle did steroids.
Remember 1961, the year he and Roger Maris chased down the Babe?
If you do, you'll also remember Mantle sat out a period of time because his quack doctor used a dirty needle on him, causing an abscess on his hip. What you might not know is what was in the needle: steroids and amphetamines.
I learned this while reading Chafets' piece in this week's ESPN The Magazine, in which Chafets articulates something that's been gnawing at me for some time. PEDs, he says, shouldn't keep Steroids Era players out of the Hall of Fame, because some of their antecedents are already there.
But I also know this: The Hall is jammed with players who violated the integrity clause. As Chafets points out, two members (Tris Speaker and Rogers Hornsby) were members of the Ku Klux Klan. DiMaggio had serious mob connections. Ty Cobb bragged about killing a man and getting away with it; Grover Cleveland Alexander pitched drunk when alcohol was a banned substance.
If you're going to bar Barry Bonds, Manny Ramirez, Roger Clemens and who knows how many other juicers/suspected juicers for violating the integrity clause, what do you do about the Speakers and Hornsbys and DiMaggios and Cobbs? What do you do about all the Hall of Famers who used PEDs â€" including the many players who gobbled amphetamines at a time when they were as common as aspirin in major league clubhouses?
Edited by: jaxvid
Cooperstown cannot lock out Steroids Era
Oh, and Cobb was a racist so he shouldn't be in the Hall either.
(from the article, book written by Zev Chavets-wonder what his background is??)
Yes, that's right. Mickey Mantle did steroids.
Remember 1961, the year he and Roger Maris chased down the Babe?
If you do, you'll also remember Mantle sat out a period of time because his quack doctor used a dirty needle on him, causing an abscess on his hip. What you might not know is what was in the needle: steroids and amphetamines.
I learned this while reading Chafets' piece in this week's ESPN The Magazine, in which Chafets articulates something that's been gnawing at me for some time. PEDs, he says, shouldn't keep Steroids Era players out of the Hall of Fame, because some of their antecedents are already there.
But I also know this: The Hall is jammed with players who violated the integrity clause. As Chafets points out, two members (Tris Speaker and Rogers Hornsby) were members of the Ku Klux Klan. DiMaggio had serious mob connections. Ty Cobb bragged about killing a man and getting away with it; Grover Cleveland Alexander pitched drunk when alcohol was a banned substance.
If you're going to bar Barry Bonds, Manny Ramirez, Roger Clemens and who knows how many other juicers/suspected juicers for violating the integrity clause, what do you do about the Speakers and Hornsbys and DiMaggios and Cobbs? What do you do about all the Hall of Famers who used PEDs â€" including the many players who gobbled amphetamines at a time when they were as common as aspirin in major league clubhouses?
Edited by: jaxvid