[OffTheHook]

1. Phil Niekro was never accused of cheating other than by you.
2. It is difficult for Steinbrenner to serve on the Vererans Committee since he died a couple of years ago. Also, he had no connection whatsoever with Watergate.
3. PEDs were not available in the 1959s and 1960s.

What world do you live in?

1. I don't know how I got Phil and Joe Confused. I stand corrected.
BUT, Gaylord Perry is in the Hall and he was caught on August 23,1982.
2. EVERYONE knows Steibrenner is dead! But he was a convicted FELON from Watergate. (Look it up) and He DID serve on the Committee.
3. Amphetamines were used in those days like candy! They were used for energy so the players would be more alert and play better. These ARE PEDs.
During the 1940’s the Soviet Union was the dominating force in athletics thanks to anabolic steroid use but this dominance was short lived as Dr. John Ziegler, the U.S. Olympic team physician found a way to soon develop methandrostenolone[/url]; you know it as Dianabol or Dbol[url=http://www.steroid.com/Dianabol.php]. Ciba Pharmaceuticals was first to market the drug and by 1958 Dianabol was approved by the FDA for human use. Ciba would not stop there, in-fact this would open the door for thousands of experiments in synthesizing anabolic steroids and derivatives.

I just think it's a crock. That just because a player played in this era or they were never proven to use (Even though it wasn't a banned substance), it is being held against them. Ruth was a drunk during prohibition and that was illegal.