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Juicing the Game: Drugs, Power, and the Fight for the Soul of Major League Baseball

Howard Bryant

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Starred Review. The title suggests an exposé of baseball's steroid problem, but that's merely the surface layer of Bryant's pervasive critique of how the sport has changed over the past decade.

After professional baseball was derailed by a bitter strike in 1994, team owners searched for ways to bring fans back into the stadiums.

The incredible boom in home-run hitting over the next few seasons offered such a motivation, and Bryant accuses managers and owners of actively ignoring the open secret of steroid use to keep sluggers like Mark McGwire and Jose Canseco in action.

He's especially hard on commissioner Bud Selig, who "had the moral authority" to invoke a stiffer antisteroids policy and "did not use it." But he also considers how the rules were applied differently to favor hitters over pitchers, and details the intense battle between umpires and Major League administrators that ensued over attempts to reform the shrinking strike zone.

Bryant's comprehensive reporting, based on a series of Boston Herald articles, takes readers right up to the brink of the current season, when Canseco's tell-all, Juiced, inspired Congress to issue subpoenas to the game's biggest stars.

As baseball struggles to restore its integrity, this is the essential explanation of how things got so far out of hand. (July 11)
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About the Author

Howard Bryant is a columnist for the Boston Herald. His first book, Shut Out: A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston, won the Casey Award for the Best Baseball Book of 2002 and was a finalist for the Seymour Medal from the Society for American Baseball Research.



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Juicing the Game: Drugs, Power, and the Fight for the Soul of Major League Baseball
Howard Bryant
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Starred Review. The title suggests an exposé of baseball's steroid problem, but that's merely the surface layer of Bryant's pervasive critique of how the sport has changed over the past decade. After professional... read full editorial
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Boston Herald sports columnist Bryant gives the full history behind the steroids scandal that has slowly but steadily enveloped major-league baseball over the past 10 years, a scandal that now calls into serious question... read full editorial
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From the respected sports journalist and author of Shut Out comes a groundbreaking history of steroid use in major league baseball Despite enjoying an era of unprecedented prosperity and on-field accomplishments, Major... read full editorial



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