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- ISBN 9780252081330
- Weight: 399g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Jan 2016
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In 2007, the Mitchell Report shocked traditionalists who were appalled that drugs had corrupted the "pure" game of baseball. Nathan Corzine rescues the story of baseball's relationship with drugs from the sepia-toned tyranny of such myths. In Team Chemistry , he reveals a game splashed with spilled whiskey and tobacco stains from the day the first pitch was thrown. Indeed, throughout the game's history, stars and scrubs alike partook of a pharmacopeia that helped them stay on the field and cope off of it:
- In 1889, Pud Galvin tried a testosterone-derived "elixir" to help him pile up some of his 646 complete games.
- Sandy Koufax needed Codeine and an anti-inflammatory used on horses to pitch through his late-career elbow woes.
- Players returning from World War II mainstreamed the use of the amphetamines they had used as servicemen.
- Vida Blue invited teammates to cocaine parties, Tim Raines used it to stay awake on the bench, and Will McEnaney snorted it between innings.
Nathan Michael Corzine is an instructor in history at Coastal Carolina Community College.
