Mickey Mantle Rookie Baseball Card

In January of 2005, former Major League slugger Jose Canseco released a controversial new book entitled “Juiced,” in which he claimed that somewhere between 50% and 80% of all professional baseball players were taking anabolic steroids or other similar performance-enhancing drugs. Canseco was immediately attacked by players, fans, the media and MLB officials, all of whom insisted that he was lying, and accused him of making such allegations because he was either desperate for money, a compulsive liar, or perhaps even a little bit crazy.

But now, just two years later, it is starting to appear that Jose’s accusations may have been right on the money. In the time since his book was first published, many highly respected players, including a few potential Hall of Famers, have either admitted such wrongdoing, been caught red-handed, or at the very least have been seriously implicated in the scandal.