- March 30, 2010
- Steroids
Steroids in Baseball: Has the Game Been Tarnished?
This article briefly introduces how steroids have impacted the game of baseball, its records, and alleged steroid users.
What If Mickey Mantle Had Used Steroids?
The all-time poster boy for 'playing hurt' in baseball has to be Mickey Mantle, the New York Yankees' legendary center fielder, says Dr. Gary S. Goodman, sales, service and success coach, and best-selling author of 12 books and the audio program, The Law of Large Numbers: How To Make Success Inevitable, published by Nightingale-Conant. According to this popular keynote speaker and radio and TV commentator, Mantle might have amassed monster statistics if he had the benefit of steroids and modern medicine. (Henry Aaron, too!)
Barry Bonds and Steroid Use
Barry Bonds has allegedly been taking steroids to enhance his baseball skills. Will the book be thrown at Bonds or will he avoid conviction and go onto to pass Hank Aaron's homerun record?
A steroid is a terpenoid lipid characterized by its sterane core and additional functional groups. The core is a carbon structure of four fused rings: three cyclohexane rings and one cyclopentane ring. The steroids vary by the functional groups attached to these rings and the oxidation state of the rings.
Hundreds of distinct steroids are found in plants, animals, and fungi. All steroids are made in cells either from the sterols lanosterol (animals and fungi) or cycloartenol (plants). Both, lanosterol and cycloartenol, are derived from the cyclization of the triterpene squalene.
Sterols are special forms of steroids, with a hydroxyl group at the atom C-3 and a skeleton derived from cholestane. Cholesterol is one of the best known sterols.