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Juicing the Game: Drugs, Power, and the Fight for the Soul of Major League Baseball

From the award-winning sports journalist and author of "Shut Out" comes a groundbreaking history of steroid use in major league baseball.

Audience
adult
Length
long · 432 pages

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