Periodicals

Title: Do Minor Leaguers Have Valid Steroid Claims?
Author: Ashby Jones
Title of Periodical: Law Blog
Date: 9/2/08
Pages: 2


Resourced Used: Bookmatch.com
Keywords Used: Steroids in baseball
Number of Hits: 7
Relevance: 3

Reference Works

Title: "Baseball juiced up: should the increased risk associated with the use of performance-enhancing substances create tort liability?"
Author: Gregory D. Hanscom
Title of Reference Work: Auraria Library
Publisher:Villanova Sports and Entertainment Law Journal
Date of Publication:08/08
Page Numbers: 367-408



Title: "Steroid use in professional baseball and anti-doping issues in amateur sports : hearing before the Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs, Foreign Commerce and Tourism of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, One Hundred Seventh Congress, second session"
Author: United States Congress
Title of Reference Work: Colorado Virtual Library
Publisher: U.S. G.P.O.
Date of Publication: June 18, 2002
Page Numbers: 107-1126



Title: "Steroids"
Author: Stefan Kiesbye
Title of Reference Work: Colorado Virtual Library
Publisher: Greenhaven Press
Date of Publication: c2007
Page Numbers: 133-138

Research Books

• Steroids
• publisher: [Bethesda, Md.] : National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services, [2007]
• http://www.nida.nih.gov/PDF/Infofacts/Steroids07.pdf
• date of publication 6/7/07
• 9/15/08
• The juice : the real story of baseball's drug problems
• Will Carroll
• place of publication: Chicago
  
• publisher: Ivan R. Dee,
  
• Copyright date: c2005
• Steroid use in professional baseball and anti-doping issues in amateur sports
• United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs, Foreign Commerce, and Tourism
• Place of Publication: Washington
  
• Publisher: U.S. G.P.O.
  
• Copyright date: 2005
• Asterisk : home runs, steroids, and the rush to judgment
• David Ezra
• Place of Publication: Chicago, Ill.
  
• Publisher: Triumph Books
  
• Copyright date: c2008

In my searches i used the Auraria :library and Prospector. I used the keywords steroids, baseball, and Mitchell report. I mixed and matched them in my searches. I searched on the 14Th and 15Th. In each search i got well over 1000 hits each time. The relevance of the hits would be a 4.

Search Strings

• (Steroids + Baseball) AND (History OR Past) AND "Mitchell Report"

• (MLB - minor leagues) AND (Steroids - HGH) OR Balco

Keywords and L.O.G.

Keywords

Steroids, HGH, Testosterone, Baseball, MLB, Balco, Barry Bonds, Mark McGuire, Roger Clemens, Mitchell Report, Senator Mitchell, Cancer, Horse Tranquilizers.

LOG

Recreation > Sports > Baseball > History > Former Players

Health > Pharmacy > Drugs and Medications > Specific Drugs and Medications > Steroids > Anabolic Steroids

Field Research Brainstorming

• Try to talk to someone in the Rockies organization
• Interview a doctor on the effects of steroids
• Interview the Metro baseball coach
• Interview an ex steroid user
• Email the commissioner of baseball
• Try to talk to senator Mitchell
• Take steroids myself

Narrowing My Topic

My topic which if you don't know what it is Steroids in baseball. I believe I need to narrow my topic a bit but not too much or I wont have enough information to write my paper. My topic i believe i need to focus more on the effects of the steroids on the actual players. Instead of doing the broad topic of the history of steroid use in baseball i am going to focus on a couple players and go into depth about why they took the drugs and did they really help the players. Barry Bonds is one of the players that i will focus on and there are a few players mentioned in the Mitchell report that i will decide later on in my research who they will be. Finally i will try to end my essay on the consequences and how steroids are going taken out of the sport.

My Research Project

1.)

• What is an anabolic steroid?
• Why are steroids banned from baseball?
• Who is checking up on the players to make sure they are not using steroids?
• How are steroids dangerous?
• Should a player caught using steroids not be able to play baseball again?
• Could the steroids potentially hurt you and even cause death?
• When were steroids banned?
• Would they ever be legal to use in baseball?
• Where do the steroids come from?
• Why do players take steroids if it could cause them harm?

2.)

Why do the players take steroids if it could cause them harm?

3.)

If steroids potentially cause harm to your body or even death, what causes a major league baseball player to take them?

4.)

How has taking steroids caused a athlete to become a better ball player?

5.)

I found some great research sites. One is http://www.cbc.ca/sports/indepth/drugs/stories/baseball_congress.html. It basically shows that you may be able to play baseball a little better then someone else if you take steroids but the lasting effects are really not worth it.

Steroids Research

My research on steroids in baseball has been a success so far. I was looking at the side effects that steroids can do to your body after taking them. One fact that i did not know bout steroids is that by taking anabolic steroids it could cause liver failure. The most common effect to the liver is called anemia which is when your iron is low. All this information and more is found on the site http://www.sportsci.org/encyc/anabstereff/anabstereff.html. I also found a link off of ESPN, http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/news/mitchell/index.jsp, which gives the whole Mitchell report. I learned while reading some of the Mitchell report that it gives specific details of people who were caught with steroids and how. Alex Cabrera in 2000 was caught in the Arizona Diamondbacks locker room with anabolic steroids, a syringe, and a hundred pills. By the time they could go forward with a trial to ban him from baseball, he was in japan playing in the japan leagues so they did not go forward. This is just some of the great information that I am collecting and there will be a lot more to come.