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Originally Posted by StyxNCa
What steroids and what players?
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I think he's referring to Pud Galvin and the Brown-Sequard Elixir.
Beyond that, there is Tom House's assertions about pitchers taking all kinds of junk in the 1960s. And the basic premise that if ballplayers were taking greenies (and tranqs) in the 1950s, how likely is it that some were taking Dianabol or other steroids well before "The Era?"
Performance enhancement is definitely not new in baseball (or sports in general; someone already mentioned the ancient Greeks and Romans) and we'll never know what was going on in the age when sportswriters held the veil of secrecy in front of the pastime.