The Juice: The Real Story of Baseball's Drug Problems

by Will Carroll

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Author: Will Carroll

Publisher: Ivan R. Dee

Paperback:
ISBN 10: 1566637201
ISBN 13: 978-1566637206

Hardcover:
ISBN 10: 9781566636681
ISBN 13: 978-1566636681

"Steroids are ruining the game of baseball. It has faced no more serious threat since gamblers gained control of the World Series in 1919."

Or are we overreacting? The problem of steroids, recreational drugs, and other performance enhancers is one of the fundamental issues facing not only baseball but all of sports and society. With pundits pointing fingers and former players naming names, a drug-induced McCarthyism is tarring some of the greatest players ever to take the field. In The Juice, Will Carroll, an acknowledged authority on baseball conditioning and injuries, calls for a scientific, reasoned approach to the steroids problem. He first explains the science of steroids and other drugs, describes how athletes are tested, considers the scientific evidence of effects and side effects, and, most important, analyzes whether and how these drugs impact the game. He explores the grey area of legal supplements, covers the BALCO story, and speculates on the next generation of performance enhancers. And he profiles the motivations and experiences of professional players, student athletes, and baseball trainers. Carroll has interviewed hundreds of players, executives, owners, and experts. His information from players who have used steroids will surprise everyone with the reasons why players cheat. His exclusive conversation with the creator of some of baseball's most abused substances will make The Juice the season's most widely discussed baseball book. For readers who want to understand why baseball has a drug problem, how the drugs work, and how they have affected the game, Carroll provides the answers. They are surprising―and should lead to new and better questions.

Review

He explains the science...and, most importantly, analyzes whether and how these drugs affect the game. (Newswise.com)

The answers are here in Carroll's well-researched, fact-filled book. (The San Diego Union-Tribune)

An indispensable guide to today's controversies. (Newsweek)

Carroll lays out a small wealth of data, compressed into simple enough terms, to inform the reader what steroids are [and] what they are not. (Jeff Kallman)

Anyone who knows Will Carroll, or who has read his writings for Baseball Prospectus, knows he cares deeply about the game of baseball. It is the very reason he has authored The Juice. Will's book will help those in the game, and the fans who follow the game, understand the issues of a problem that needs to be faced before it can disappear. (Fred Claire, former L.A. Dodger Executive VP and author of Fred Claire: My 30 Years in Dodger Blue)

Will Carroll does a simple, brilliant thing in this book: He asks questions...and he goes about answering them, in a deliberate, curious, and rational way. His prose is clean and his aim is true, and in one fell swoop he's raised the level of debate about steroids in this country. ...From now on, if a person wants to pontificate on the question, he'd better have read The Juice first. And if a person hopes to speak intelligently about how performance-enhancing drugs affect the games we play and the sports we follow, she will have certainly read The Juice. (Eric Neel, ESPN)

The Juice is a great resource for information on the history and presence of banned and illegal performance enhancers in sports. Will Carroll's work really is a baseball book (on steroids)! (Tom House)

It's brimming with cold-eyed analysis, digestible science and shoe-leather journalism. No histrionics, no agenda; just an exhaustive look at steroids and what they mean for the game. It's the most important work of its kind. (Dayn Perry, FOX Sports)

Eye opening! This is an important book for everyone who influences young athletes. The Juice is an objective look at the world of performance enhancement drugs today and tomorrow. (Karl Kuehl)

Everyone talks about steroids, but no one knows anything about them. Will Carroll's The Juice is the first step in our education. (Allen Barra The Wall Street Journal)

About the Author

Will Carroll writes for Baseball Prospectus and is the author of Saving the Pitcher, a revolutionary book about preventing pitching injuries that has been widely applauded. His father, Dr. William Carroll, is a former athletic trainer in professional sports and a respected sports medicine educator. Will Carroll lives in Indianapolis, and William L. Carroll lives in Mobile, AL.

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