The powerful story of an essential baseball lifeIn Playing Through
the Pain: Ken Caminiti and the Steroids Confession That Changed
Baseball Forever, writer Dan Good seeks to make sense of MLB MVP
Ken Caminiti’s fascinating, troubled life. Good began researching
Caminiti in 2012 and conducted his first interviews for his
biography in 2013. Since then he’s interviewed nearly 400 people,
providing him with an exclusive and exhaustive view into
Caminiti’s addictions, use of steroids, baseball successes, and
inner turmoil. Decades later, the full truth about Major League
Baseball’s steroids era remains elusive, and the story of
Caminiti, the player who opened the lid on performance-enhancing
drugs in baseball has never been properly told. A gritty third
baseman known for his diving stops, cannon arm, and switch-hit
power, Caminiti voluntarily admitted in a 2002 Sports Illustrated
cover story that he used steroids during his career, including his
1996 MVP season, and guessed that half of the players were using
performance-enhancing drugs. “I’ve made a ton of mistakes,”
he said. “I don’t think using steroids is one of them.”
Good’s on-the-record sources include Caminiti’s steroids
supplier, who has never come forward, discussing in detail his
efforts to set up drug programs for Caminiti and dozens of other
MLB players during the late 1990s; people who attended rehab with
Caminiti and revealed the secret inner trauma that fueled his
addictions; hundreds of Caminiti’s baseball teammates and
coaches, from Little League to the major leagues, who adored and
respected him while struggling to understand how to help him amid a
culture that cultivated substance abuse; childhood friends who were
drawn to his daring personality, warmth, and athleticism; and the
teenager at the center of Caminiti’s October 2004 trip to New
York City during which he overdosed and died.
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