Baseball players took testosterone as early as 1889

Yes, that?s right, people.  Testosterone, or steroids, has been around this game for nearly the entire existence of it.  This doesn?t justify the use, but any person that wants to tell me so and so was clean can go to hell.  They?re full of shit.  This has been a dirty game since day 1.  1889, a Pittsburgh pitcher named Jim ?Pud? Galvin became the first baseball player to be widely known for using a performance enhancer. (He was nicknamed ?Pud? because his pitching supposedly turned opposing batters into ?pudding??much like Barry Bonds? brain.) Before pitching a game against Boston, Pud used something called the elixir of Brown-Sequard? essentially testosterone drained from the gonads of an animal. And, low and behold, the juiced-up Galvin won. and what did the media think of this back then? ?If there still be doubting Thomases who concede no virtue of the elixir, they are respectfully referred to Galvin?s record in yesterday?s Boston-Pittsburgh game. It is the best proof yet furnished of the value of the discovery.? Yep, the same media that acts like the moral authority for every baseball fan on the planet basically encouraged ballplayers to take it.  Numbers weren?t cherished then.  Isn?t it interesting the the ones who cherish the numbers the most are the same ones who are now arguing that A-Rod, or Sosa, or others, only played for the numbers?  Can we now stop talking about how ballplayers of the past played by the rules and respected this game?  It?s such fucking bullshit that I?m amazed so many people actually eat that shit up.  It?s proof that people cannot think for themselves.  I?m not talking about the people who want steroids out of the game; I think we all do.  I?m talking about the people who think it?s some sin to the baseball gods to disrespect a game that has never earned any respect.  We have undeniable proof that ballplayers were taking testosterone (steroids) as early as 1889.  Everybody since then is under the same cloud of suspicion that all players today are. All of them!