Andro’s even less of a cheating gray area than steroids – while neither were explicitly banned by baseball at the time, the anti-steroid crowd could at at least point out that steroids were against the law when used without a prescription. Andro was available at GNC, and there was no law prohibiting it. You or I could’ve used andro to bulk up for slow-pitch softball, and no one would have cared if we brought it to the game and gave it to our teammates.

I don’t have any problem with what the reporter did, but I do have a problem with the implication that McGwire’s use of Andro was somehow cheating. I do believe that McGwire also used steroids (based on a combination of Canseco’s books, his evasive Congressional testimony, and gut feeling), but I don’t think his use of Andro is, in itself, anything to illegitimize his performance.

Killebrew said they should “Throw the names out there” because “You don’t know” if someone used steroids or not so everyone’s record is suspect. My point was the same could apply for earlier players. Nothing black and white at all IMO. As far as Maris, et al is concerned, I am not accusing them of anything, others have. Again, that refers back to what Killebrew was saying.
Do your own research, I found it very easily.

Cortisone.

As usual.

Maybe you should actually read the stuff you Google for others there, Nater. It’s pretty obvious you did not.

I’ve read the meager amount of lame suppositions about Maris offered by people who happen to have an Internet connection. They suppose, but they offer not a bit of proof or any evidence. And none of these people accuse Maris of using steroids. They are theorizing.

Hey, more neau: I’m still waiting for the list of people who have accused Maris of using steroids, and who can offer some valid support.

And po’ ol’ Nater thinks a cortisone shot is the same as using steroids?

Let me help you boys out a little, being neither of you seem to be able to do any of your own research:

1) A cortisone shot administered by a doctor in 1964 is not the same as Jose Canseco injecting anabolic steroids in his own butt. (Maybe by now ol’ Nater is starting to latch onto the distinctions of “cortisone,” “anabolic steroids” and “administered by a doctor.”)

2) Anabolic steroids were not illegal in this country before 1990, and this fact is huge.

Tons of bandwidth could be saved if guys like Nate and more neau would gain some understanding before tappin’ the keyboard.

Let me do your work for you there, laddies:

If Roger Maris’ entire family says they took turns shooting his butt full of anabolic steroids in 1961 it was OK. It wasn’t cheating then, and it wasn’t illegal. Shoot away, Rajah.

Anabolic steroids were not on Schedule III of controlled substances until the Anabolic Steroid Control Act of 1990. And MLB did not ban them until after that.

Get it?

Before 1990, there was nothing illegal about using this stuff in the U.S. for purposes other than what was written on the package.

Hell, the IOC didn’t ban anabolic steroids until the mid-70s.

MLB’s “steroid scandal” isn’t about cheating at a game, it’s about is breaking the law.

If anabolic steroids were not a Schedule III drug before 1990 and MLB didn’t ban it, how could it be cheating, let alone illegal, if Maris or Maglie or anyone took it?