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Reporter's Mark McGwire story has place in steroid-use history
[SIZE=-1]Boston Herald[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Steve Wilstein is The Associated Press reporter who amid Mark McGwires home run chase in 1998 wrote a controversial story detailing his use of androstenedione, then a legal over-the-counter drug that raises ones testosterone level.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]"Sitting on the top shelf of Mark McGwires locker, next to a can of Popeye spinach and packs of sugarless gum, is a brown bottle labeled Androstenedione.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]"For more than a year, McGwire says, he has been using the testosterone-producing pill, which is perfectly legal in baseball but banned in the NFL, the Olympics and the NCAA." [...][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]"I went out there intending to write a story about this fun home run chase that had captured the nations interest," Wilstein, 60, said last week. "I was out there for weeks, and then I write the story about andro and I understand the reaction I got. I didnt take it personally because I was doing what I had to do. From my perspective, it was important for people to understand that there was something phony going on. It wasnt as clean and wonderful as everyone thought." [...][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Now retired and living outside of Seattle, Wilstein will forever have a place in The Steroid Era. It all began when he noticed the andro bottle while waiting for McGwire by his locker.[/SIZE]
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[SIZE=-1]Boston Herald[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Steve Wilstein is The Associated Press reporter who amid Mark McGwires home run chase in 1998 wrote a controversial story detailing his use of androstenedione, then a legal over-the-counter drug that raises ones testosterone level.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]"Sitting on the top shelf of Mark McGwires locker, next to a can of Popeye spinach and packs of sugarless gum, is a brown bottle labeled Androstenedione.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]"For more than a year, McGwire says, he has been using the testosterone-producing pill, which is perfectly legal in baseball but banned in the NFL, the Olympics and the NCAA." [...][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]"I went out there intending to write a story about this fun home run chase that had captured the nations interest," Wilstein, 60, said last week. "I was out there for weeks, and then I write the story about andro and I understand the reaction I got. I didnt take it personally because I was doing what I had to do. From my perspective, it was important for people to understand that there was something phony going on. It wasnt as clean and wonderful as everyone thought." [...][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Now retired and living outside of Seattle, Wilstein will forever have a place in The Steroid Era. It all began when he noticed the andro bottle while waiting for McGwire by his locker.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]...[/SIZE]
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