Team Chemistry - 9780252081330

Team ChemistryThe History of Drugs and Alcohol in Major League Baseball\nAuthor(s): Nathan Michael Corzine\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Illinois Press, United States\nImprint: University of Illinois Press\nISBN-13: 9780252081330, 978-0252081330\nSynopsis\nIn 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: \n\nIn 1889, Pud Galvin tried a testosterone-derived \""elixir\"" to help him pile up some of his 646 complete games.\nSandy Koufax needed Codeine and an anti-inflammatory used on horses to pitch through his late-ca.