The Juice The Real Story of Baseball's Drug Problems

by Carroll, Will; Carroll, William L.

• ISBN13: 9781566636681
• ISBN10: 156663668X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-04-14
• Publisher: Ivan R. Dee

Summary

Or are we overreacting? The fact is that the drug problem in baseball is being confronted with a poverty of information. How do steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs work, and what impact do they have on athletes and especially on baseball players? Are they a danger to the game or simply a harbinger of inevitable change?

Author Biography

William L. Carroll is professor of human performance and exercise science, and director of the Athletic Training Education Program at the University of Mobile in Alabama, where he lives

Table of Contents

Foreword by Alan Schwarz	ix
Introduction	3	(135)
1 Defining the Issue	9	(7)
2 Profile: The Player	16	(13)
3 A Brief History of Performance-enhancing Drugs	29	(18)
4 How Steroids Work, and What They Do to the Body	47	(26)
5 The Original Juice: Amphetamines and Uppers	73	(7)
6 Supplements, a Grey Area	80	(16)
7 Profile: The Tester	96	(11)
8 A Comparison: Football's Steroids Policy	107	(9)
9 Pre-trial Commotion: The Legal Issues of Steroids and Sports	116	(22)
10 Profile: The Student	138	(8)
11 On the Horizon: Genetic Performance Enhancement	146	(13)
12 Profile: The Creator	159	(17)
13 Those in Favor Raise Their Hands	176	(25)
14 Do Steroids Rewrite the Record Books?	201	(29)
15 What Lies Ahead	230	(6)
16 How to Save the Game	236	(5)
A Note on the Authors and the Text	241	(4)
Index	245