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CONGRESS STRIKES OUT
April 11, 2005 issue

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The article reports on United States Congressional hearings on the use of steroid drugs by Major League Baseball players. The Congressional hearings on steroid use in baseball turned into an orgy of self-promotion as committee members told gushy stories about their love of the game. After eight hours of this, six subpoenaed multimillionaires delivered pointless testimony. Although slammed for stonewalling questions about his own drug use, baseball player Mark McGwire took a position in the tradition of noncooperating by refusing to implicate others for personal advantage. And player José Canseco, who wrote a book about big-leaguers' drug use, inherited the role of money-grubbing snitch.

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BASEBALL players -- United States; ATHLETES -- Drug use; STEROIDS; STEROID drugs; MCGWIRE, Mark; CANSECO, Jose; BASEBALL; UNITED States
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