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By William C. Kashatus

ISBN-10: 1439914389

ISBN-13: 9781439914380

Appearance- and performance-enhancing drugs—specifically, anabolic steroids (APEDs)—provide a tempting aggressive virtue for newbie baseball avid gamers. yet this shortcut can distinctive a deadly rate on proficient athletes. In his pressing ebook Suicide Squeeze, William Kashatus chronicles the reports of Taylor Hooton and Rob Garibaldi, promising highschool baseball gamers who abused APEDs within the hopes of attracting expert scouts and department I recruiters. besides the fact that, because of their steroid abuse, they ended up taking their very own lives.

In Suicide Squeeze—named for the high-risk play in baseball to scouse borrow home—Kashatus identifies the indications and risks of steroid use between teenagers. utilizing archival study and interviews with the Hooton and Garibaldi households, he explores the lives and deaths of those afflicted younger males, the impression in their suicides on MLB, and the continuing struggle opposed to adolescent APED use by way of their parents.

A passionate attract hinder extra mindless deaths through athletes, Suicide Squeeze is a vital contribution to debates on early life and activities and on public policy.

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