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Steroid Scandals Can't Erase Fine Moments in Baseball

By Russ Smith

Baltimore City Paper | December 8, 2004

One-time Yankees superstar Jason Giambi’s disgrace -- and the photos of his sickly body -- provides more of a deterrent to impressionable kids than any new rules about steroid use that the Major League Baseball’s management and players union can agree upon.

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