Former pitcher Tom House has come out and said that he was using steroids during his career in the late 60's and early 70's. Frankly, it doesn't surprise me, even though baseball's official position has been that steroid use didn't become common until the mid to late 90's. Baseball players have been using their bodies as toxic waste sites for almost as long as there has been baseball. Alcohol has been the most common chemical, but during that period of House's career, the stigma attach to all types of drug use in society was pretty low, so it makes sense that ball players experimented in much the same way that the rest of American society did. Think of cocaine's hayday in the 1980's-it was mirrored by a coke scandal in baseball that sidelined player's like Paul Molitor.
I'm just thankful that it was Tom House that admitted this. I read it wrong at first and thought it was former great Paul Householder. My goodness, if I found out Householder had been on steroids, it would have ruined my trust in Baseball's record books.
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