The hard realities of a game as American as red juice, white lines, and Vida Blue
Nathan Michael Corzine is an instructor in history at Coastal Carolina Community College.
"Stimulating. Clearly the most comprehensive 'baseball and drugs'
book that I've read or am aware of. There are other books that
cover specific scandals, such as BALCO, but none that dig as deeply
into the history of the relationship between baseball and
drugs."--Mitchell Nathanson, author of A People's History of
Baseball
"Nathan Michael Corzine goes past the mythology and digs deep to
reveal a game splashed with spilled whiskey and tobacco stains from
its origins, where substances of various stripes were valued for
the supposed ability to help athletes play better."--Alternet
"Corzine presents a more nuanced meaning of professional baseball's
post steroid era. . . . Books like this one can help guide both
scholars and fans toward appreciation, understanding, and perhaps
even reconciliation with the game's past."--Journal of Sport
History
"A succinct, thoughtful, readable review of alcohol and drug abuse
in baseball from 1870 to the present. Recommended." --Choice
"Corzine's well-crafted chronology of the history of drug and
alcohol use in Major League Baseball is a good read for fans and
scholars alike. Team Chemistry offers new insights and analytic
modes to address both of baseball's substance problems--its problem
with both legal and illegal drugs and its problem of relying on the
romanticized memory of the sport, rather than the reality of its
clubs and players."--Sport in American History
"Team Chemistry is a fascinating and compelling story of drugs in
Major League baseball. Utilizing a vast array of sources and with
great insight, Corzine traces the use of both legal and illicit
drugs in a sport always thought of as our National Pastime. In the
process, we gain a more nuanced and far deeper understanding of the
mythology surrounding baseball and American culture."--David K.
Wiggins, author of The Unlevel Playing Field: A Documentary History
of the African American Experience in Sport
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