The Pittsburgh Cocaine Seven: How a Ragtag Group of Fans Took the Fall for Major League Baseball
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“Baseball’s drug culture grew because people looked the other way, or lied about its existence.” 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 game’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 ballplayers—for anybody, really—using cocaine. The account is fascinating in itself, but it also, by inference, throws harsh light on major-league baseball’s ongoing failure to police itself. --Alan Moores
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