Who's Next After Cheat Mcgwire? ; Sosa Staying Quiet As Latest Steroid 'Fess-Up Rocks Baseball [Eire Region Edition 2]

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BASEBALL'S off-season has long been called the "hot stove", a time for contemplation of the season past and the stoking of expectations for the campaign to come. Recent winters, however, have been far from cosy for America's pastime, with hot syringes more the order of the day than cosy fireside chats about player trades and team prospects.

Last winter it was the outing of the sport's highest paid player, Alex 'ARod' Rodriguez, as a man who had tested positive for two anabolic steroids in 2003, that shook the sport to its core.

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Who's Next After Cheat Mcgwire? ; Sosa Staying Quiet As Latest Steroid 'Fess-Up Rocks Baseball [Eire Region Edition 2]

The winter before that, in December 2007, saw the release of Senator George Mitchell's Report to the Commissioner of Baseball into steroid use in the major leagues, listing 89 former and current players whom Mitchell accused of using anabolic steroids and Human Growth Hormone in order to enhance performance.

Mitchell's roll call included...

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