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The Pittsburgh Cocaine Seven

The Pittsburgh Cocaine Seven

How a Ragtag Group of Fans Took the Fall for Major League Baseball

by Aaron Skirboll
Hardback
Publication Date: 22/10/2010

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Eerily prescient of times to come, this expose examines drug use in Major League Baseball (MLB) during the mid-1980s and one of the biggest drug trials in baseball history. Through a series of exclusive interviews with FBI agents, U.S. attorneys, defence lawyers, journalists, former baseball executives, physicians, and the dealers themselves, the narrative provides a behind-the-scenes look into how the players managed their habits, the effect of the drugs on their athletic performance, and the ruses the players concocted to keep their drug consumption from becoming public knowledge. Among the all-stars implicated as cocaine users were Joaquin Andujar, Dusty Baker, Dale Berra, Keith Hernandez, Lee Mazzilli, John Milner, Dave Parker, and Lonnie Smith, while Willie Mays and Willie Stargell were fingered as amphetamine users. In addition to identifying the players involved, this account reveals how the hapless group of mostly die-hard Pittsburgh Pirates fans got into cocaine and connected with the players as well.
ISBN:
9781569762882
9781569762882
Category:
Social & cultural history
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
22-10-2010
Language:
English
Publisher:
Zephyr Press
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
288
Dimensions (mm):
230x155x23mm
Weight:
0.54kg

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