Canseco testifies at the House Committee hearing on MLB steroid use

MS of witnesses Schilling, Palmeiro, McGwire, Sosa, and Canseco, among others Former Major League Baseball outfielder and designated hitter Jose Canseco says it required his book ÒJuicedÓ to expose the steroid problem in the Major League. Rafael Palmeiro, Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, Curt Schilling, and five other baseball players and executives also testified under oath about the use of steroids in MLB. Canseco: ÒBasically, something like a book written about the problems of Major League Baseball had to be done. Absolutely. I think it definitely triggered a lot of events. I think it finally made Major League Baseball aware of that, you know, or, in a sense of, stop covering up what was really going on.Ó