From the Publisher
Will Carroll, an acknowledged authority on baseball conditioning and injuries, calls for a scientific, reasoned approach to the steroids problem. He first explains the science of steroids and other drugs, describes how athletes are tested, considers the scientific evidence of effects and side effects, and, most important, analyzes whether and how these drugs impact the game.
Sports Ramblings
"Professional and insightful approach to defining the ramifications of steroid usage as it applies to playing the sport of baseball."
Royals Review
"The Juice remains one of the more important baseball and sports books
written this decade."-
Mercury News
"Riveting...tremendously important: spelling out the complex arguments and issues regarding baseball and drug use.... A blessedly blather-free book."
Wall Street Journal -
Brandon Wilson
Everyone talks about steroids, but no one knows anything about them. Will Carroll's The Juice is the first step in our education.
ESPN -
Eric Neel
Carroll does a simple, brilliant thing in this book: He asks questions...and he goes about answering them, in a deliberate, curious, and rational way. His prose is clean and his aim is true, and in one fell swoop he's raised the level of debate about 'steroids' in this country.
Kansas City Star
"This book...is a great example of how to objectively examine a subject. "
Bookwatch
"A ‘must’ for any involved in the sport’s finer issues."
New Republic
"A good job of showing why the situation involving performance enhancing drugs is more complicated than you might think."
"The Juice remains one of the more important baseball and sports books
written this decade."-
Wall Street Journal -
Allen Barra
Everyone talks about steroids, but no one knows anything about them. Will Carroll's The Juice is the first step in our education.
ESPN -
Art Thiel
Carroll does a simple, brilliant thing in this book: He asks questions...and he goes about answering them, in a deliberate, curious, and rational way. His prose is clean and his aim is true, and in one fell swoop he's raised the level of debate about 'steroids' in this country.
School Library Journal
Adult/High School-Carroll is a recognized expert on medical matters related to baseball, and, for the most part, his analysis of steroid use among ballplayers is fair, thorough, and based on solid evidence. As such, his book is in direct competition with several more sensational and opinionated accounts. There is no question, for example, that Juice has more to offer the baseball community than Jose Canseco's Juiced (Regan Bks., 2005), but the latter has received far more attention from the media. At the risk of being slightly pedantic, Carroll refuses to sidestep the many complexities surrounding the use of performance-enhancing drugs. He considers PEDs not just a baseball or even a general sports problem, but rather a social issue on par with the use of recreational drugs. Despite a few factual errors, and some uneven writing (several of the chapters are written by other "experts"), this book belongs in most public and school libraries. Many who read it will gain from it, but none more so than the high school athlete who will confront, most likely for the first time, the truth about these illegal substances.-Robert Saunderson, Berkeley Public Library, CA Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.
What People Are Saying
Will Weiss
The Juice is a must-read for legislators, sports administrators, educators, lawyers, doctors, journalists, athletes of all levels, and fans.
—Senior Editor, YESNetwork.com
Rob Neyer
Stop! Don't say another word about 'steroids' until you've read The Juice.
—ESPN
Dayn Perry
This book...[is] brimming with cold-eyed analysis, digestible science and shoe-leather journalism. No histrionics, no agenda; just an exhaustive look at steroids and what they mean for the game. It's the most important work of its kind.
—FOX Sports
Eric Neel
"Intriguing detail."
—Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Fred Claire
Anyone who knows Will Carroll, or who has read his writings for Baseball Prospectus, knows he cares deeply about the game of baseball. It is the very reason he has authored The Juice.
—former L.A. Dodger Executive VP and author of Fred Claire: My 30 Years in Dodger Blue
Jeff Erickson
Will Carroll's The Juice fills the yawning educational gap that exists in discussions on the topic.
—Rotowire
Democrat and Chronicle
"Riveting."
Ira Berkow
Authoritative and insightful. Carroll's book helps clear the bases on one of the murkiest--and ominous--problems in sports today.
—sports columnist and author of Red: A Biography of Red Smith
Art Thiel
"Intriguing detail."
—Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Karl Kuehl
Eye opening! This is an important book for everyone who influences young athletes. ...An objective look...
Thiel
"Intriguing detail."
—Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Allen Barra
"A dose of enlightenment."
—baseballmuse.com
Tom House
The Juice is a great resource for information on the history and presence of banned and illegal performance enhancers in sports.
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