Baseball Is Challenged on Rise in Stimulant Use

January 16, 2008

When George J. Mitchell was appointed to investigate the use of performance-enhancing drugs in baseball nearly two years ago, amphetamines were not part of his mandate. The substances had been around baseball for decades, were sometimes winked at and were not even banned until the 2006 season, several years after the sport began to address what seemed to be the far larger controversy of steroid use. (New York Times)