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Timeline: Steroids in baseball

October, 1988 Washington Post baseball writer Thomas Boswell claims Jose Canseco is "the most conspicuous example of a player who has made himself great with steroids." Canseco denies it. June 7, 1991 Commissioner Fay Vincent sends a memo to each team announcing that steroids have been added to the league's banned list. No testing plan is announced.

Aug. 22, 1998 A jar of androstenedione...

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