Baseball History

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The use of steroids in baseball had been whispered about as early as the 1980s, but major league officials were slow to respond. Here, a look at key moments in baseball's investigation of doping in the sport:

Sept. 3, 2003: Federal investigators raid a Burlingame, Calif., laboratory suspected of distributing steroids to professional athletes. Investigators seize financial and medical records from the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, or BALCO. Those documents allegedly include a calendar of San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds' drug regimen and records of Bonds' payments for drugs. Government investigators cite this evidence four years later, when Bonds is indicted.

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