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Pud Galvin: The Godfather of Juicing

most fans, the idea of steroids being a problem in baseball (commonly referred to as “juicing”) is a recent problem that begins right around the time Jose Canseco joined the Major Leagues. 

In truth, however, steroids were already widespread in baseball well before Canseco; former MLB pitcher Tom House (who famously caught Hank Aaron’s 715th home run in the Braves bullpen) admitted to using steroids throughout his career and claimed that  "six or seven" pitchers on every major league staff in the 1970s were "fiddling" with steroids or HGH. 

This corresponds well with the Mitchell Report, which stated that the government first determined that steroids were widespread in baseball as early as 1973. 


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