Interesting and relatively well written series started today in the
Toronto Star. Although the front page headline "Baseball's Wild Frontier"
with a close up (fold line just below his eyes) of this photo is somewhat overblown:
Pedro, who no longer plays baseball, speaks to the Star about how he and his friends used several different performance enhancing drugs. His estimate is that 90% of players use something, but others estimate the number is closer to 60%. Nobody really knows the number, but every coache we spoke to seemed to agree that players are using something - just not their players.
the full article is here.
A boy practicing with a buscon in a city park sports a t-shirt his father bought him in the US. Ironically, some locals say that Major League Baseball in the US is not doing enough to keep drugs out of baseball in the Dominican Republic.
One interesting graphic that was in the print edition but not included in the web version:
Drug Violators
5 MLB players tested positive so far-
1 Cuban, 1-Dominican and 1-Venezuelan
62 Minor league players test positive-
1 Cuban, 11 Dominicans, 2 Mexicans, 1 PuertoRican, and 15 Venezuelans
Toronto Star. Although the front page headline "Baseball's Wild Frontier"
with a close up (fold line just below his eyes) of this photo is somewhat overblown:
Pedro, who no longer plays baseball, speaks to the Star about how he and his friends used several different performance enhancing drugs. His estimate is that 90% of players use something, but others estimate the number is closer to 60%. Nobody really knows the number, but every coache we spoke to seemed to agree that players are using something - just not their players.
the full article is here.
A boy practicing with a buscon in a city park sports a t-shirt his father bought him in the US. Ironically, some locals say that Major League Baseball in the US is not doing enough to keep drugs out of baseball in the Dominican Republic.
One interesting graphic that was in the print edition but not included in the web version:
Drug Violators
5 MLB players tested positive so far-
1 Cuban, 1-Dominican and 1-Venezuelan
62 Minor league players test positive-
1 Cuban, 11 Dominicans, 2 Mexicans, 1 PuertoRican, and 15 Venezuelans