Episode 38 - Baseball Has a Cocaine Problem
This Week In Baseball History
English - February 28, 2018 04:45 - 56 minutes - 77.9 MB - ★★★★ - 224 ratingsSports History Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Episode 37 - Danny Gardella and the Mexican League Declare War
Like the rest of America, Major League Baseball was overrun in the early 1980s by cocaine, culminating in a massive trial in Pittsburgh where seven players testified against their dealers. Thirty-two years ago this week, on February 28, 1986, Peter Ueberroth suspended all seven, and four others, to prove the league was serious about cleaning up its act. Mike and Bill look at the history of drug use in the game, of cocaine itself, of the trial, and of the league's largely failed attempts to police itself.