CHAPTER THREE
The nickname Bud . . . Miami Herald, “Devil? Angel? No, He’s Just Bud,” by Jeff Miller, August 4, 2002, and Newsday, “Bud: There’s a Lot Brewing Beneath Selig’s Low-Key Image,” by Jon Heyman, September 18, 1994. “How do you know when George Steinbrenner is lying? . . .” Zimbalist, Baseball and Billions. “Singleton,” Hoffberger began . . . Interview with Ken Singleton. To Dave Winfield . . . Interview with Dave Winfield. “Larry isn’t necessarily mad . . .” Interview with Charles Steinberg. “I grew up in Pittsburgh . . .” Yale Law Report, “Larry Lucchino: It Doesn’t Get Any Better Than This,” by Jonathan T. Weisberg, Winter 2003. “I thought Larry was crazy . . .” Interview with Charles Steinberg. “He hung up the phone and said to me . . .” Sports Business News, interview with Larry Lucchino, 2003. “We would have won it that year . . .” Interview with Rondell White. “But,” he said, “this town hasn’t come back . . .” Interview with Nomar Garciaparra. “Montreal, that’s who I think about the most . . .” Interview with Tony Gwynn. “Personally, I think it’s his greatest achievement . . .” Interview with Peter Schmuck. “How many players even took the time . . .”; “You always knew he was the man . . .” Interview with Dave Sheinin. “The thing about Cal . . .” Interview with Ken Rosenthal. “His rules were pretty simple . . .” Interview with Harold Baines. “I think Ripken really set the example for all of us . . .” Interview with Tony Gwynn.
CHAPTER FOUR
“Major League Baseball’s new ad campaign . . .” New York Times, “Is Poor Pitching Simply a Case of Better Hitting?” by Murray Chass, May 5, 1996. “I remember telling them that . . .” Interview with Lee Garfinkel. “I was up in my room . . .” Interview with Scott Grayson. “Whenever I read that a player . . .” Interview with Boomer Esiason. “I wanted to make sure I had that right . . .” Interview with Dave Winfield. “Individualism was never accepted . . .”; “All of a sudden, our whole perspective . . .” Interview with Harold Reynolds. “Everyone at CBS who cared about the game . . .” New York Times, “Stupid Baseball Tricks,” by Tom Friend, May 5, 1996. “The fact was that we needed to look in the mirror . . .” Interview with Andy MacPhail. “has always been known as an underachiever . . .” Washington Post, “After Long Buildup, Anderson Comes to Full Power,” by Thomas Boswell, July 3, 1996. “We’re safe,” Frank Robinson told Claire Smith . . . New York Times, “Could ’96 Be a Triple Crown Year? A Former Winner Rates the Field,” by Claire Smith, June 24, 1996. “Mark McGwire’s body . . .” New York Times, “Powerful Pace Rewrites Record Books,” by Murray Chass, August 4, 1996. “Taking all those elements into consideration . . .” New York Times, “It’s As If the Wind’s Been Blowing Out All Season,” by Murray Chass, September 25, 1996.
CHAPTER FIVE
“It’s like the whole team’s in there . . .”; “Who cares if you can hit .300 when you can bench 300?”; “Sometimes when I walk on the field, I feel like I’m playing the Kansas City Chiefs . . .” USA Today/Baseball Weekly, “Lifting the Game,” by Pete Williams, May 7, 1997. “Everybody’s blaming the pitchers . . .” Buffalo News, “Anderson an Example of Baseball’s New Power Kings,” by Ken Daley, July 7, 1996. “I hate to stereotype people . . .” Denver Post, “Home Run Surge Electrified Fans, Shocked Pitchers,” by Jerry Crasnick, September 29, 1996. Donald Fehr understood this bit of folklore . . . Interview with Donald Fehr. “I just want one favor from you . . .” Washington Post, “Late Bloomer,” by Thomas Boswell, March 30, 1997. Bob Watson, who in 1996 . . . Interview with Bob Watson. “I’m going to make 250 outs a year . . .” Interview with Bobby Bonds. To Dusty Baker . . . Interview with Dusty Baker. “All you had to do was look at the guy . . .” Interview with Bob Klapisch. “Jerry Colangelo had a supplement guy . . .” Interview with Clarence Cockerell. Alderson recalled his acquisition of Dave Henderson . . . ; “He was - really an offensive player . . .”; “If you have a smaller budget . . .” Interview with Sandy Alderson. When he became general manager . . . Interview with Billy Beane. “That was a motivator for me . . .” Interview with Sandy Alderson. “You saw those guys and you were like . . .” Interview with Jeff Brantley. “They were already fearsome . . .” Interview with Ellis Burks. “Stew? Stew doesn’t look like . . .” Interview with Tony Phillips. “I played against him all those years . . .” Interview with Dave Winfield. To Jerry Goldman, steroid use was inevitable . . . Interview with Jerry Goldman. “He wanted to be the center of attention . . .” Interview with Monte Poole. At the time, Drew recalled, the nineteen-year-old Canseco . . . Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, “Drew Recalls When Canseco Was Thin,” by Bob Matthews, February 26, 2005. “If I knew 40-40 was going to be such a big deal . . .” Interview with Willie Mays. “That was huge. It was a huge blow to his ego . . .” Interview with Monte Poole. Cafardo recalled meeting Canseco . . . Interview with Nick Cafardo. “What I saw was a less-confident player . . .” Interview with Monte Poole.
CHAPTER SIX
“Baseball was a dinosaur, moving at a notoriously slow pace . . .”; Selig to recall the words . . . “Your job is not to make decisions . . .”; “This is the beginning of a renaissance . . .” Interview with Bud Selig. “Mark McGwire is for real . . .”; “It’ll be brutal for Mark if he gets to forty by August . . .” New York Times, “The ‘Fuss’ Over McGwire,” by Dave Anderson, July 2, 1987. “All of a sudden . . .” Interview with Glenn Stout. “The truth is . . .” Chicago Tribune, “For Both Teams, ‘Big Deal’ Is a Shrug,” by Bernie Lincicome, April 1, 1992. “Everybody’s got to do what he wants them to do . . .” Chicago Tribune, “Sosa Takes Cuts at Sox Hrniak,” by Alan Solomon, February 24, 1993. “That made me real happy . . .” Chicago Tribune, “Sosa Loves to Play, and He’s Proving It,” by Alan Solomon, August 17, 1993. “There wasn’t a lot of ‘wow’ to that club . . .” Interview with Willie Randolph. “I was sure someone could have picked us off . . .” Interview with Brian Cashman. “What I remember most about 1998 . . .” Interview with Willie Randolph. Rich Levin, the baseball public relations man . . . Interview with Rich Levin. “I remember pitching against him . . .” Chicago Tribune, “Sosa Finally Seems Aware the Sky’s the Limit for Him,” by Jerome Holtzman, March 13, 1994. “Everyone else in the game uses the same stuff I use . . .”; “My philosophy . . .” New York Times, “Opponents Don’t Fault McGwire for Pills,” by Buster Olney, August 25, 1998. “You looked at us, and you weren’t blown away . . .” Interview with Jorge Posada. “Somewhere, on television yesterday . . .” New York Times, “Go Punt, Football: Baseball Is on the Throne,” by Richard Sandomir, September 28, 1998.
CHAPTER SEVEN
“The Cardinals are a disciplined organization . . .” New York Times, “McGwire Admits to Taking Controversial Substance,” by Joe Drape, August 22, 1998. “He’s not doing anything illegal . . .” New York Times, “Opponents Don’t Fault McGwire for Pills,” by Buster Olney, August 25, 1998. “In McGwire’s case, it is misleading . . .” Boston Globe, “This Persecution of McGwire a Crime,” by Dan Shaughnessy, August 26, 1998. The Sunday after the story broke . . . Interview with Bud Selig. “Cork is not illegal . . .” Interview with Bob Costas. “There are kids in high school using steroids . . .”; Mo Vaughn, the Boston slugger . . . Boston Globe, “Vaughn Says Legal Supplements Are Fair Game,” by Gordon Edes, August 26, 1998. “If baseball has a problem . . .” The Sporting News, “Steroids in Baseball? Say It Ain’t So, Bud,” by Bob Nightengale, July 24, 1995. Yet to John Hoberman . . . Interview with John Hoberman. “It was brilliant,” Grayson said . . . Interview with Scott Grayson. “It was how the media can take one thing . . .” Interview with Don Baylor. “It was either the five hundredth variation of the same salsa tune . . .” Interview with Paul Sullivan. “There would be times when I would make comments . . .” Interview with Joe Morgan. “I definitely got some feedback . . .” Interview with Bob Costas. Roger Angell captured Morgan perfectly . . . Roger Angell, Once More Around the Park: A Baseball Reader (New York: Ballantine Books, 1991). “Why do fans always complain a
bout how much money we make? . . .” Interview with Jason Giambi.
CHAPTER EIGHT
“Doctors ought to quit worrying . . .” Associated Press, “MVP in 1996 Says Taking Steroids Wasn’t a Mistake,” May 28, 2002. Wadler dealt mostly with heroin and marijuana abuse . . . ; “They sent me into a room . . .” Interview with Gary Wadler. Steroid use was rampant in the dormitory . . . ; “All those memories came back . . .”; “For me, kids emulate their heroes . . .”; “Now, a hamster is not a human, yes . . .”; “The steroids circumvent the learning process of aggression . . .” Interview with Richard Melloni. “As far as I’m concerned they’ve been . . .”; “Now there was a guy . . .”; “Look, I’ve never had a seat at the table . . .” Interview with Charles Yesalis. “Steve Wilstein was the first one . . .” Interview with Gary Wadler. “You basically would have had owners . . .” Interview with Murray Chass. “I think they and other sport federations . . .” Interview with Charles Yesalis.
CHAPTER NINE
In the early days of the Eastern Roman Empire . . . Charles Yesalis, Anabolic Steroids in Sport and Exercise (Champaign, Ill.: Human Kinetics, 1993). The good doctor turned reckless experimenter . . . C. E. Brown-Séquard, “Note on the effects produced on man by subcutaneous injections of a liquid obtained from the testicles of animals,” Lancet 2 (1889): 105-7. The experiments continued into the 1950s . . . Yesalis, Anabolic Steroids in Sport and Exercise. “He asked me if we had uniform agreement . . .” Interview with Richard Pound. “Last year, the only difference between me and him . . .” Yesalis, Anabolic Steroids in Sport and Exercise. “I could stand behind Kornelia Ender . . .”; “They must have given her the keys . . .” Interview with Richard Pound. The most famous case was that . . . New York Times, “East Germans’ Steroid Toll: They Killed Heidi,” by Jere Longman, January 26, 2004. “Teams can draft a kid who looks like he can be a player . . .”; “With the levels of anabolic steroids . . .” New York Times, “NFL Steroid Policy Too Lax, Doctor Warns,” by Timothy W. Smith, July 3, 1991. “Not only did the medical community develop . . .” Yesalis, Anabolic Steroids in Sport and Exercise. “It was a simple question . . .”; “You’re sending out people . . .” Interview with Richard Melloni. “Creatine isn’t even mentioned . . .” Interview with Charles Yesalis. “Andro, I don’t like. It was a good idea . . .” Interview with Clarence Cockerell.
CHAPTER TEN
“There would be no baseball left . . .”; “I think it’s just sad . . .” Associated Press, “Canseco: 85 Percent of Players Take Steroids,” May 18, 2002. “Basically, steroids can jump you a level or two . . .” Associated Press, “MVP in 1996 Says Taking Steroids Wasn’t a Mistake,” May 28, 2002. “Fuck you, Shakespeare! . . .” Interview with Jim Bouton. “After Caminiti, the silent majority gained momentum . . .” Interview with Buster Olney. David Justice, an All-Star outfielder . . . Interview with David Justice. To Mike Stanton . . . Interview with Mike Stanton. “I don’t worry about it . . .” Interview with Derek Jeter. “In the outfield . . .” Interview with Jason Giambi.
CHAPTER ELEVEN
“Just look at the game. Just look at the numbers . . .” Interview with Curt Schilling. “If anyone complained inside the union . . .” Interview with Bob Klapisch. “That was the year Maddux . . .” Interview with Leo Mazzone. “On the days I’m not pitching, I chart missed pitches . . .” Interview with Greg Maddux. “Bases loaded, two out in the ninth . . .” Interview with Ken Macha. “It was like ‘right down the middle, ball one,’ . . .” Interview with David Wells. “I pleaded with Sandy not to make the deal . . .” Interview with Billy Beane. “It was Sandy’s Marine moment . . .”; “It’s because he had an unhealthy disrespect for beat writers . . .” Interview with Ray Ratto. “I had no idea he was in Vietnam . . .” Interview with Mike DiGiovanna. “Sandy pioneered so much about the game . . .” Interview with J. P. Ricciardi. “I got worried when I found out . . .”; “When I knew Sandy was doing the strike zone . . .” Business Week, “Speak Bluntly and Carry a Big Bat,” by Mark Hyman, April 16, 2001. “The union has literally handed the leagues . . .” Referee Enterprises, Inc., “Death of a Union,” http://www.referee.com/samplear ticles/2001/SampleAr ticle0101/deathunion/deathofauniontext.html. To Jim Palmer . . . Interview with Jim Palmer. To Tony Gwynn . . . ; “There’s nowhere for them to go . . .” Interview with Tony Gwynn. David Feldman, a technician working for KRON . . . Interview with David Feldman. “I think it began with a handful of umpires . . .” Interview with Sandy Alderson. “The umpire sets the tone for a ballgame . . .”; “They just don’t like being judged . . .” ESPN.com, “Figuring Out the QuesTec System,” http://espn.go.com/mlb/questec.html. “Ralph Nelson is the person who signed the five-year contract with QuesTec . . .” Interview with Ralph Nelson. Nothing about QuesTec was quite as impressive as it seemed . . . Baltimore Daily Record, “Baltimore Lawyers Aid Umpires Battling Evaluation System,” by Kristen Keener, March 31, 2003; New York Times, “Company with Checkered Past Monitors Umpires’ Ball-Strike Calls,” by Murray Chass and Patrick McGeehan, September 19, 2002; Newsday, “Baseball Drives the Future,” by Paul Schreiber, February 25, 1997, and “Taking Swings at QuesTec,” by Monte Phan, September 3, 2003. “The umpires’ view . . .” Interview with Larry Gibson. “Watch the old videos of the way we hit . . .” Interview with Bob Watson. “If I mistake inside, fine . . .” Angell, Once More Around the Park. “All of the fear that used to be a part of hitting . . .”; “What was that for? . . .” Interview with Don Baylor. “My opinion is if you’re the owner of the baseball team . . .” Interview with Jeff Brantley. “There is a feeling that an organization begins with the manager . . .” Interview with Billy Beane. “Managers are very controlling . . .” Interview with Sandy Alderson. “Give up outs to score runs? We don’t do that here.” Interview with J. P. Ricciardi.
CHAPTER TWELVE
You asked me a question . . . Interview with Bill James. “We didn’t even have anyone checking the plans . . .”; “No matter how good a fielder he was . . .” Interview with Sandy Alderson. “When I first started playing . . .” Interview with Terry Pendleton. “Obviously there are substances which impact a player’s performance . . .” Interview with Bill James.
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
“While the doctors could not scientifically establish . . .” Statement of Robert Manfred to Senate Commerce Committee, June 18, 2002. “Whatever those players may have wanted . . .” Interview with Rob Manfred. “A Greenie I don’t have a problem with . . .” Interview with Ron Washington. “To get the same dosage in food . . .” USA Today/Baseball Weekly,“Lifting the Game,” by Pete Williams, May 7, 1997. “Had the union even done some type of internal testing . . .” Interview with Buster Olney. “IQ test instead of a drug test . . .” Interview with Gary Wadler. “You can test positive for steroids five times . . .” Interview with Richard Pound. “I was even more disturbed . . .” Interview with Gary Wadler. “The goal isn’t to catch people . . .” Interview with Rob Manfred. “In most locker rooms, most clubhouses . . .” Boston Globe, “Years After Exit, Miller Has Say,” by Gordon Edes, January 15, 2005. “Bud, I don’t want to take up too much of your time . . .” Interview with Bud Selig. “I was outraged . . .” Interview with Gary Wadler.
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
“I swear to you, I never thought about it . . .” Interview with Ron Washington. “Take into account . . .” Interview with Tony Gwynn. “It was a little scratched . . .” Interview with Reggie Jackson. “This game doesn’t belong to us . . .” Interview with Joe Torre. “Anyone who knows me . . .” Interview with Jason Giambi. “That is completely and totally ridiculous . . .” Interview with Larry Lucchino. “How could they keep a secret so big . . .” Interview with Murray Chass. “We’ll play this here game . . .” David Zang, Fleet Walker’s Divided Heart: The Life of Baseball’s First Black Major Leaguer (Lincoln and London: The University of Nebraska Press, 1995). “There is no rule, formal or informal . . .” Boston Record, “What About Trio Seeking Sox Tryout?” by Dave Egan,
April 16, 1945. “Hey, Pee Wee . . .” Roger Kahn, The Era: When the Yankees, Giants and Dodgers Ruled the World (New York: Ticknor and Fields, 1993). “Fay, if you ever have any doubt . . .” Vincent, The Last Commissioner. “Somewhere,” Klapisch said . . . Interview with Bob Klapisch. “During the 1992 Olympics . . .” Interview with Charles Yesalis. “I think the public cares . . .” Interview with Mike Lupica. “That baseball is considered nothing . . .” Interview with Ken Rosenthal. “We hear it all the time . . .” Interview with Tom Gordon. “There was a time when baseball . . .” Interview with Matt Keough. “Just by virtue of being on television . . .” Interview with Glenn Stout. “We’ll never be able to quantify it . . .” Interview with Donald Fehr. “Why do you think the fucking DH exists . . .” Interview with David Wells.
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
“It wasn’t every day . . .” Interview with Dana Yates. “A Burlingame lab . . .” San Mateo Daily Journal, “Star Athlete Lab Raided,” by Dana Yates, September 4, 2003. “For the rest of my career . . .” Interview with Dana Yates. “There was some question . . .” Interview with Glenn Schwarz. “We used to call it ‘the Bat Cave’ . . .” Interview with Ricardo Sandoval. “They can test me every day . . .” Associated Press, “Baker Likens Suspicions Over Steroids to McCarthyism,” by Nancy Armour, February 24, 2004. “Are you talking about steroids? . . .” Interview with Jason Giambi. “He couldn’t talk about the case . . .” Interview with George King. “These substances can do things . . .” Interview with Rich Melloni. “After more than a year . . .” San Francisco Chronicle, “Giambi Admits Taking Steroids,” December 2, 2004, by Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams. “Does baseball change that drug policy . . .” Interview with Glenn Schwarz.
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