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Article: Is ephedrine on way out? Increasing call for majors to ban stimulant.(SPORTS)

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February 20, 2003
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Byline: Eric Fisher, THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Major League Baseball isn't saying it. Neither is the players' union. But some restriction of ephedrine almost certainly is coming to the sport, and perhaps the entire country, following the death Monday of Baltimore Orioles pitcher Steve Bechler.

Players union representatives, agents, doctors and Congress yesterday continued the fast-mounting call for baseball to join the NFL, NCAA and Olympics to ban ephedrine, an over-the-counter stimulant widely linked to heatstroke, seizures, organ failures, heart arrhythmia and cardiac arrest.

Foremost among the angry chorus was Rep. John Sweeney, New York ...

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