CLEANUP HITTERS.(Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big)(Book Review)

One young man leads another to a toilet stall, cautiously looking around to make sure they're not being observed. Then he has him lower his trousers so that he can get at his buttocks. What follows is a matter of enormous public interest. Years later, President George W. Bush makes a speech condemning it. Congressional hearings are held to investigate it and to frame public policy.

It is the summer of 1988; the toilets are in the home locker room of the Oakland Athletics; and Jose Canseco is injecting Mark McGwire with anabolic steroids. Or so Canseco recounts in "Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big" (Regan Books; $25.95). "It ...