For a big league ballplayer, no temptation ever presented itself with more irresistibility over the last two decades than whether or not to utilize the potent juice of steroids and human growth hormones.
A batter pumped up by these performance enhancers possessed sufficient additional power to transform an undrugged, warning-track fly out into a “going, going, gone” home run, while a pitcher empowered with some steroidal gas in his tank could add at least five miles an hour to his fastball.
The extra pop in the bat and zip on the ball elevated minor leaguers to the majors, transformed average players into stars, and shifted All-Star regulars into record-shattering legends.
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