Wednesday, January 02, 2008

Buck Weaver's of the Steroids Era

John Brattain brings up an excellent point in regards to those who knew about steroids in baseball but said nothing:
In recent weeks, much has been written about the Mitchell report, Pete Rose, Joe Jackson and the Black Sox in discussing how the steroid era fits in among baseball’s great scandals. One question that has not been answered is this: How many Buck Weavers are there in baseball’s performance-enhancing drug chapter? How many players (not to mention coaches, trainers, managers, GMs, team executives, etc.) never injected themselves with human growth hormone, rubbed THG into their skin or popped a pill containing Stanozolol yet knew those who did but remained mute?

What about them?
Buck Weaver never took money and never threw a game but he knew about the 1919 fix and for that he was banned from baseball for the rest of his life. I agree that throwing a baseball game is awful for baseball and throwing a World Series is the worst case scenario but it is a question worthy of consideration. What about the Buck Weaver's of the steroids era? The players, the coaches and the writers who knew and yet said nothing - what's to be done about them?

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