Steve wilstein mark mcgwire biography

Steve Wilstein (born September 1, 1948) is an American sportswriter, author and photographer.

Steroid story got a different reaction a decade ago

Wilstein reported Mark McGwire’s use of the testosterone booster androstenedione during the home run race in 1998, the first news story to expose and corroborate the use of anabolic steroids in baseball. Wilstein’s stories and columns led to revelations that resulted in Congressional hearings, drug-testing in the major leagues for the first time, a U.S.

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ban on androstenedione, and the federal Anabolic Steroid Control Act of 2004. His work was cited as pivotal by former Sen. George Mitchell in his 2007 report to the commissioner of baseball on steroids in the sport, after a 20-month probe, and was chronicled in the books Game of Shadows^[1] and Juicing the Game, and detailed in the ESPN the Magazine series, “Who Knew?”^[2] In 2009, the Seattle chapter of the Baseball Writers' Association of America nominated Wil Steroid story got a different reaction a decade ago RAVY