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The Mitchell report one year later: picking up the pieces

By Howard Bryant
ESPN.com

Thursday, December 11, 2008

Two weeks before Christmas 2007, baseball commissioner Bud Selig gambled an estimated $40 million that the Mitchell report -- the massive, 409-page investigation into performance-enhancing drug use in baseball, 20 months in the making -- would provide salvation both for him and his sport. The stakes in such an unprecedented move -- no head of an American sports league had ever launched such a high-profile, sweeping probe into its own conduct -- were improbably high. And over the first few days ...

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