For more than a decade, baseball has been afflicted with “widespread illegal use of steroids and other anabolic substances” by players on every team in the big leagues, former U.S. Senator George Mitchell’s declared today.
The report contained “many” names of baseball players who sued banned drugs, Mitchell said.
Among the players named: New York Yankees pitcher Roger Clemens, a seven-time winner of the Cy Young award. The report describes Clemens’ use of the injectable steroid Winstrol in 1998.
Also, some of the former A’s and Giants players mentioned in the report: Miguel Tejada, F.P. Santangelo, Jason Christensen, Matt Herges, Mike Stanton, Glenallen Hill, Mark Carreon, David Justice, Jack Cust and Adam Piatt, whose cooperation with Mitchell was one key to his report.
Other A’s and Giants mentioned, names that had come out before in connection with BALCO, were Bonds, Benito Santiago, Bobby Estalella, Armando Rios, Jason Giambi and Jeremy Giambi. The report also mentions players with Bay Area connections who the media had reported were customers of an on-line pharmacy, including Jose Guillen, David Bell and Matt Williams.
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-Samantha Giles
