McGwire on when he used steroids
January 11, 2010 by Joe Trends · Leave a Comment
Mark McGwire (born October 1, 1963) is a former Major League Baseball player who played his major league career with the Oakland Athletics and the St. Louis Cardinals.
Mark McGwire’s admission of steroid use was a big story on Monday, but the news did not send shock waves throughout the media world. The confession did succeed in giving national columnists a chance to review the slugger’s past and ponder his future in the game. The Boston Globe’s Bob Ryan spent 2 1/2 minutes talking about McGwire on his video blog shortly after the news broke.
NEW YORK – Sobbing and sniffling, Mark McGwire finally answered the steroid question. Ending more than a decade of denials and evasion, McGwire admitted Monday what many had suspected for so long – that steroids and human growth hormone helped make him a home run king.
“The toughest thing is my wife, my parents, close friends have had no idea that I hid it from them all this time,” he told The Associated Press in an emotional, 20-minute interview. “I knew this day was going to come. I didn’t know when.”
In a quavering voice, McGwire apologized and said he used steroids and human growth hormone on and off for a decade, starting before the 1990 season and including the year he broke Roger Maris’ single-season home run record in 1998.
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