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Old 04-18-2015, 02:28 AM   #60
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Originally Posted by Dyzalot View Post
The last couple of weeks of Mantle's 1961 season were ruined due to a botched amphetamine injection by Max "Dr. Feelgood" Jacobsen. Somehow I have a hard time believing that was the only time he used drugs to try to enhance his performance.
That still doesn't support your claim. Please recall your claim was fairly specific, so I don't think it wrong to expect something in the way of specific evidence, preferably something with a solid statistical analysis.

Furthermore, even if we grant the premise, we are still left with the same issue I gave previously: how does one go about ascribing the degree of responsibility for Mantle's or Aaron's performance to drug usage? How do you account for other influencing factors? How do you determine the degree of impact those other factors had as opposed to the use of any drugs?
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