He explains the science...and, most importantly, analyzes whether and how these drugs affect the game.
Newswise.com
The answers are here in Carroll's well-researched, fact-filled book.
The San Diego Union-Tribune
An indispensable guide to today's controversies.
Newsweek
Carroll lays out a small wealth of data, compressed into simple enough terms, to inform the reader what ... Read moresteroids are [and] what they are not.
Jeff Kallman 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. Will’s book will help those in the game, and the fans who follow the game, understand the issues of a problem that needs to be faced before it can disappear.
Fred Claire, former L.A. Dodger Executive VP and author of Fred Claire: My 30 Years in Dodger Blue Will 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. ...From now on, if a person wants to pontificate on the question, he’d better have read The Juice first. And if a person hopes to speak intelligently about how performance-enhancing drugs affect the games we play and the sports we follow, she will have certainly read The Juice.
Eric Neel, ESPN The Juice is a great resource for information on the history and presence of banned and illegal performance enhancers in sports. Will Carroll’s work really is a baseball book (on steroids)!
Tom House It's 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.
Dayn Perry, FOX Sports Eye opening! This is an important book for everyone who influences young athletes. The Juice is an objective look at the world of performance enhancement drugs today and tomorrow.
Karl Kuehl Everyone talks about steroids, but no one knows anything about them. Will Carroll’s The Juice is the first step in our education.
Allen Barra
The Wall Street Journal
There’s a difference between thinking critically and criticizing, and Will Carroll demonstrates that throughout the text. The Juice is a must-read for legislators, sports administrators, educators, lawyers, doctors, journalists, athletes of all levels, and fans.
Will Weiss, Senior Editor, YESNetwork.com Stop! Don’t say another word about steroids until you’ve read The Juice.
Rob Neyer, ESPN Will Carroll’s The Juice fills the yawning educational gap that exists in discussions on the topic. Are steroids in baseball a real problem? Absolutely, but if you want to have an intelligent conversation about them, make sure you first read The Juice.
Jeff Erickson, Rotowire A good job of showing why the situation involving performance enhancing drugs is more complicated than you might think.
Ben Adler
New Republic
A fascinating new book.
ESPN the Magazine
Our education has begun.... Carroll...sifts through facts and myths and helps understand the layers of performance enhancements.
Peter Gammons
ESPN the Magazine
Riveting...tremendously important: spelling out the complex arguments and issues regarding baseball and drug use.... A blessedly blather–free book.
Daniel Brown
Mercury News
A professional and insightful approach to defining the ramifications of steroid usage as it applies to playing the sport of baseball.
Bernie Gilmer
Sports Ramblings
Intriguing detail.
Art Thiel
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
A dose of enlightenment.
Brandon Wilson
Baseballmuse.Com
A must for any involved in the sport's finer issues.
Bookwatch
This book...is a great example of how to objectively examine a subject.
Greg Hack
Kansas City Star
Riveting.
Leo Roth
Democrat & Chronicle
Engaging reading.
Russ Smith
New York Sun
One of the more important baseball and sports books written this decade.
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