Mark McGwire, who was identified as one of the many baseball sluggers making use of steroids in the past, was recently saddened by hearing about a book on steroids by his brother with chronicles on use of performance enhancing drugs.
Mark said that he was upset over his brother, Jay, choosing the subject of steroids and said that reconciliation between the two brothers is just not possible.
Last month, McGwire admitted taking steroids and human growth hormone during the 1990s, but said he only did so to recover from injuries -- not to improve his performance.Jay McGwire says recovering from injuries was the primary reason for his brother's decision to use drugs but that Mark McGwire also knew the steroids were helping him gain size and strength."He had to do something to try to sell a book," Mark said. "I know the reason why I did it. I know it from the heart and I told you guys that already back in January."Jay McGwire says in the book that he persuaded his brother to start using steroids regularly in 1994 and set him up with a supplier. He says Mark regularly used an array of drugs through 1996 that included Deca-Durabolin, human growth hormone, Dianabol, Winstrol and Primobolan. McGwire later used androstenedione, a steroid precursor that wasn't banned by baseball until 2004, when it became a controlled substance."I've already come out and said what I've done and apologized," Mark said. "As far as I'm concerned there's really nothing new. It's kind of sad as a brother what he's done, but I've moved on from it."Jay McGwire, a former bodybuilder who turns 40 on May 5, said he was introduced to steroids by friends in 1989, beginning with pills of Anavar. He says his brother only gave in to using steroids after an injury-filled 1993 season.
Jay is the youngest of five McGwire brothers and his book, Mark and Me: Mark McGwire and the Truth behind Baseball's Worst-Kept Secret, is considered by many to dent Mark's image further.
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