Will steroids strike 'em out?

• Author: Vecsey, George
• Position: Perspectives

The scandal, is in the clubhouse now. Barry Bonds's personal trainer, Greg Anderson, has been indicted on 42 charges involving anabolic steroids and financial abuses. After some of his milestone home runs, Bonds publicly praised Anderson for telling him to eat his broccoli or increase his zinc intake. Now John Ashcroft has linked Anderson to the chain of body-building abusers in baseball and other sports. Baseball looked the other way too long, even when sluggers with recently enlarged physiques were pampered by allowing their trainers in the clubhouse. There are good reasons these substances are illegal. They deny equal chance to art athletes. And many are dangerous. Baseball. sluggers...