{"product_id":"9780252097898","title":"Team Chemistry: The History of Drugs and Alcohol in Major League Baseball","description":"In 2007, the Mitchell Report shocked traditionalists who were appalled that drugs had corrupted the \"pure\" game of baseball. Nathan Corzine rescues the story of baseball's relationship with drugs from the sepia-toned tyranny of such myths. In Team Chemistry , he reveals a game splashed with spilled whiskey and tobacco stains from the day the first pitch was thrown. Indeed, throughout the game's history, stars and scrubs alike partook of a pharmacopeia that helped them stay on the field and cope off of it: \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eIn 1889, Pud Galvin tried a testosterone-derived \"elixir\" to help him pile up some of his 646 complete games.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eSandy Koufax needed Codeine and an anti-inflammatory used on horses to pitch through his late-career elbow woes.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ePlayers returning from World War II mainstreamed the use of the amphetamines they had used as servicemen.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eVida Blue invited teammates to cocaine parties, Tim Raines used it to stay awake on the bench, and Will McEnaney snorted it between innings.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e Corzine also ventures outside the lines to show how authorities handled--or failed to handle--drug and alcohol problems, and how those problems both shaped and scarred the game. The result is an eye-opening look at what baseball's relationship with substances legal and otherwise tells us about culture, society, and masculinity in America.","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47074048573680,"sku":"9780252097898","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780252097898_p0.jpg?v=1763680521","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780252097898","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}