| Description |
1 online resource (239 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Sport and society
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Sport and society.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"In 2007, the Mitchell Report shocked traditionalists who were appalled that drugs had corrupted the "pure" game of baseball. Nathan Corzine rescues the story of baseball's relationship with drugs from the sepia-toned tyranny of such myths. In Team Chemistry, he reveals a game splashed with spilled whiskey and tobacco stains from the day the first pitch was thrown. Indeed, throughout the game's history, stars and scrubs alike partook of a pharmacopeia that helped them stay on the field and cope off of it: In 1889, Pud Galvin tried a testosterone-derived "elixir" to help him pile up some of his 646 complete games. Sandy Koufax needed Codeine and an anti-inflammatory used on horses to pitch through his late-career elbow woes. Players returning from World War II mainstreamed the use of the amphetamines they had used as servicemen. Vida Blue invited teammates to cocaine parties, Tim Raines used it to stay awake on the bench, and Will McEnaney snorted it between innings. Corzine also ventures outside the lines to show how authorities handled--or failed to handle--drug and alcohol problems, and how those problems both shaped and scarred the game. The result is an eye-opening look at what baseball's relationship with substances legal and otherwise tells us about culture, society, and masculinity in America." -- Publisher's description. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Baseball players -- Drug use -- United States.
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Baseball players -- Drug use. |
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United States. |
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Baseball players. |
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Doping in sports -- United States.
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Doping in sports. |
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Baseball -- Corrupt practices -- United States.
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Baseball -- Corrupt practices. |
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Baseball. |
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Doping in Sports. |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Title |
History of drugs and alcohol in major league baseball |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Corzine, Nathan Michael. Team chemistry. Urbana, Illinois : University of Illinois Press, 2016 0252081331 (OCoLC)907966251 |
| ISBN |
9780252097898 electronic book |
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0252097890 electronic book |
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9780252039799 |
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0252081331 |
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9780252081330 |
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0252039793 |
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