In Juicing the Game - award-winning journalist Howard Bryant offers the only big-picture look at the insidious manner in which performance-enhancing drugs infested baseball as the game’s leaders stood idly by - reaping the rewards.
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Why MLB adopted the save in 1969 because of a Chicago writer
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