NEW YORK (AFP) — A book written by the estranged younger brother of disgraced former baseball hero Mark McGwire says the record-setting slugger took steroids, the website www.deadspin.com reported Thursday.
Jay McGwire claimed in the as-yet-unpublished memoir that he was the reason that McGwire became involved in performance-enhancing drugs.
"Mark is a man I think most would like to forgive because his reason wasn't nefarious. It was for survival," Jay McGwire wrote.
Mark McGwire, a retired standout for the St. Louis Cardinals and Oakland A's, hit 70 home runs in the 1998 season to shatter the one-season Major League Baseball record of 61 by Roger Maris in 1961, among the most hallowed US baseball marks.
But the glory of the time turned sour with doping accusations.
McGwire's estranged brother says star took steroids....
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