Outrage
By Paul Catalano ~ June 28th, 2009. Filed under: Digest Contributors.
“He never lost his sense of rage.” — Tom Ricker on Izzy Stone, American Journalist
Of all the things that bother me about the steroids era one of the biggies is the miasma of indifference.
That baseball, in the past twenty years, was being corrupted by drugs designed to make Greek Gods out of regular ballplayers was common knowledge. Thomas Boswell of the Washington Post, as far back as 1988, said that steroids in baseball were a problem. A few intrepid reporters tried at various times to report that, yes, Sammy Sosa or Barry Bonds looked ridiculous when compared to their rookie baseball card. But nobody listened. Nobody cared.
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