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Article: Panic room: the baseball-steroid issue reaches the Senate, and legal supplements get smeared in the process.
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- September 1, 2002
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Politicians grab headlines like baseball players grab crotches, but even seasoned congressional observers were surprised when U.S. Senators took the trouble to summon Major League Baseball (MLB) officials for a hearing on steroids in baseball. This particular theater of the absurd on June 18 was arranged after, the June 3 publication of Spoils Illustrated's cover report, "Steroids in Baseball: Confessions of an MVP." In that piece, 1996 National League Most Valuable Player award winner Ken Caminiti admitted to using anabolic steroids and claimed that up to 50% of players in the bigs use performance-enhancing drugs. Also, shortly before the SI piece hit newsstands, recently ...