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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Great ReadBy Pat RooneyGreat read. Goes into intimate detail that was not included in the ESPN 30 for 30 film. The reader gets a great look at the personalities and profiles of those non- athletes involved in the scandal and how much the players relied on them as a source. What's very interesting is that none of those individuals were in it to make a profit. In fact, most of them were operating at a loss due the players reluctance to pay market rates. The flow of the book moves very well in chronological order highlighting key aspects along the way as to how it all came to a screeching halt - well, at least for a momentary lapse. I couldn't put it down and knocked it out in just five days.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. What to believeBy B. brownThis book is interesting but the author writing about the detective being nicknamed the wolf because he resembled Jack Nicholson from the movie "Wolf" made me question how much of what I was reading was true. Him being called "wolf" would not have happened the way the author writes because the movie didn't come out for another decade after the drug trials. He either wrote this to make that part of the story sound better or he was severely misinformed. Either way it left a bad taste in my mouth while reading the rest of the book.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A Deperessing Look at BaseballBy William BenedonI'm not a great baseball fan. I lost my great enthusiasm when the Brooklyn Dodgers leftNew York and moved west. But based upon all the publicity about steroids in thesport, I thought this might be an interesting book. And indeed it was!! Pittsburgh was also oneof my favorite teams and this story of the cocaine use among team players truly depressed me.The roster of key players on the team involved in both the usage and public trials that tookplace( many resulting prison terms) was depressing reading but highly informative regardingthe overall impact on the baseball profession. .
In terms of sheer dirt, three baseball scandals rise to the top: Shoeless Joe and the Black Sox, the 1985 Pittsburgh drug trials, and the steroid era. The former and latter have been covered extensively. Yet there has never been a book detailing the biggest drug trials in baseball history. The Pittsburgh Cocaine Seven tells the whole story in all its shocking details. The MLB participants were among the gamersquo;s elite, but most of the guys who took the fall for these superstars were just average fans, not heavy hitters or major drug dealers. In 1985, it seemed the league was poised to implement a drug-testing policy for the players. Of course, that didnrsquo;t happen, and because of this inaction, the steroid era came along. The Pittsburgh Cocaine Seven is a prescient and compelling story and a necessary read for any baseball fan today.
From Booklistldquo;Baseballrsquo;s drug culture grew because people looked the other way, or lied about its existence.rdquo; This quote, which author Skirboll pulled from Sports Illustrated, refers not to the performance- enhancing-drug scandal of the past 15 years but rather to the 1980s cocaine scandal that implicated some of the gamersquo;s biggest stars at the time, including Dave Parker, Keith Hernandez, Joaquin Andujar, Lee Mazzilli, and Lonnie Smith. Skirboll offers a credible account of how the 1980s coke culture insinuated itself into major-league locker rooms, particularly that of the notorious Pittsburgh Pirates, whose talented lefty reliever Rod Scurry was a poster boy for all that could go wrong for ballplayersmdash;for anybody, reallymdash;using cocaine. The account is fascinating in itself, but it also, by inference, throws harsh light on major-league baseballrsquo;s ongoing failure to police itself. --Alan Moores "The account is fascinating . . . throws harsh light on Major League Baseball's ongoing failure to police itself." mdash;Booklist
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