The Juice: The Real Story of Baseball's Drug Problems - Hardcover

Carroll, Will

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 156663668X ISBN 13: 9781566636681

Publisher: Ivan R. Dee, 2005

Synopsis

Will Carroll, an acknowledged authority on baseball conditioning and injuries, calls for a scientific, reasoned approach to the steroids problem. He first explains the science of steroids and other drugs, describes how athletes are tested, considers the scientific evidence of effects and side effects, and, most important, analyzes whether and how these drugs impact the game.

About this title

About the Author:

Will Carroll writes for Baseball Prospectus and is the author of Saving the Pitcher, a revolutionary book about preventing pitching injuries that has been widely applauded. His father, Dr. William Carroll, is a former athletic trainer in professional sports and a respected sports medicine educator. Will Carroll lives in Indianapolis, and William L. Carroll lives in Mobile, AL.

Review:

He explains the science...and, most importantly, analyzes whether and how these drugs affect the game. (Newswise.com)

The answers are here in Carroll's well-researched, fact-filled book. (The San Diego Union-Tribune)

An indispensable guide to today's controversies. (Newsweek)

Carroll lays out a small wealth of data, compressed into simple enough terms, to inform the reader what steroids are [and] what they are not. (Jeff Kallman)

Anyone who knows Will Carroll, or who has read his writings for Baseball Prospectus, knows he cares deeply about the game of baseball. It is the very reason he has authored The Juice. Will's book will help those in the game, and the fans who follow the game, understand the issues of a problem that needs to be faced before it can disappear. (Fred Claire, former L.A. Dodger Executive VP and author of Fred Claire: My 30 Years in Dodger Blue)

Will Carroll does a simple, brilliant thing in this book: He asks questions...and he goes about answering them, in a deliberate, curious, and rational way. His prose is clean and his aim is true, and in one fell swoop he's raised the level of debate about steroids in this country. ...From now on, if a person wants to pontificate on the question, he'd better have read The Juice first. And if a person hopes to speak intelligently about how performance-enhancing drugs affect the games we play and the sports we follow, she will have certainly read The Juice. (Eric Neel, ESPN)

The Juice is a great resource for information on the history and presence of banned and illegal performance enhancers in sports. Will Carroll's work really is a baseball book (on steroids)! (Tom House)

It's brimming with cold-eyed analysis, digestible science and shoe-leather journalism. No histrionics, no agenda; just an exhaustive look at steroids and what they mean for the game. It's the most important work of its kind. (Dayn Perry, FOX Sports)

Eye opening! This is an important book for everyone who influences young athletes. The Juice is an objective look at the world of performance enhancement drugs today and tomorrow. (Karl Kuehl)

Everyone talks about steroids, but no one knows anything about them. Will Carroll's The Juice is the first step in our education. (Allen Barra The Wall Street Journal)

About this edition

• Publisher: Ivan R. Dee
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 156663668X
• ISBN 13: 9781566636681
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 268