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...years later, former U.S. Senator George Mitchell capped his 21-month investigation into steroids in baseball - begun at Commissioner Bud Selig's request - with the infamous Mitchell Report, which called out 89 major league players for allegedly using steroids...
...baseball was believed to be largely immune. In April 1988 the Los Angeles Times reported that America's pastime remained "essentially steroid-free." While Washington Post sportswriter Thomas Boswell would call Oakland slugger Jose Canseco "the most conspicuous example of a player who has made himself great with steroids" later that year, Canseco shrugged off the charge; he went on to be named American League MVP. (He would later admit to doping from as early as 1985, saying steroids in late-1980s and 1990s baseball were as common "as a cup of coffee...
...baseball's banned-substance roster in 1991, but no testing was mandated. Fans and officials largely turned a blind eye, even as players' bodies swelled along with their achievements. In 1999, even after McGwire had copped to taking androstenedione - or "andro," an over-the-counter precursor to testosterone later banned by the FDA - Senator Edward Kennedy called the slugger and his rival Sosa the "home-run kings for working families in America." A year later, the suggestion in the New York Times that up to 40% of major league players had taken steroids was largely met with crickets...
...major league players and managers agreed to begin limited, anonymous testing for steroids. Two years later President George W. Bush took the unprecedented step of condemning steroids in his State of the Union address, saying the use of the "dangerous" drugs in baseball, among other sports, "sends the wrong message - that there are shortcuts to accomplishments, and that performance is more important than character." That same year, standards grew tougher and major leaguers submitted to their first mandatory steroid tests. Under the penalties first introduced for doping in 2005, 12 players were suspended for 10 days each...
...practically neighbors" (Lewis moved to Cambridge after being released from prison), Nicholson met up with Lewis for a private, untaped interview in July 2007. He pounded Lewis with questions about the Tylenol killings until, Nicholson said, Lewis got pretty angry. Yet surprisingly, Lewis then granted Nicholson a public interview later that year...