Deadline #10 HW#2

Pampel, Fred. Drugs And Sports. New York: File on File Inc, 2007.

Best book found so far for the research project. The book starts with the earliest known accounts of doping. It covers amphetamines, steroids, blood doping, and hGH and other designer supplements. From there it covers the current testing policies and what players are doing to get around them. Although this project is only on baseball, it covers topics such as doping in the olympics, football, and collegiate sports. The most beneficial part of this book resides in the section called Minority Views in Favor of Steroid Use. This will be used to show some of the positives of doping in baseball, as most sources are clearly against steroids.

Canseco, Jose. Juiced. New York: Regan Books, 2005.

This is also one of the few sources available on the benefits of steroids. Providing dates, times, conversations, and personal accounts, Jose explains why he thinks steroids are a benefit to baseball players. As a user himself he explains how steroids enabled him to be the star athlete that he was/is. Mostly the correalation of his doping schedule and his output (offensive/defensive stats) will be used for this research project.