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Originally Posted by theshleps
Ben do we know which 50s-70s players used used amphetamines- any of the classics? mantle? mays/ aaron? or others in the HOF?
I know alot of former mlb players from the years 2000+ and I know adderal was/is quite common
Just found this on baseball reference
" in the 1970s and users included Willie Stargell, Dave Parker, Jim Bouton and Bill Madlock. Willie Mays is frequently alleged to have used them as well " or this on espn
" A retired Tony Gwynn spoke openly of baseball's amphetamine problem in 2003, estimating for The New York Times that 50 percent of position players were using them routinely, many of them before almost every game. (Gwynn subsequently was blasted by those in uniform at the time for, in their opinion, speaking out of school.)"
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Adderall is amphetamines and dextroamphetamine salts.
I've taken it for a while, but not currently. One dosage my doctor asked how it was going, and I said it made me feel like a pro ballplayer... something I then had to explain - that dosage came in green capsules.
I also have been to the batting cages both with and without it, and with ritalin.
No improvement was found in any way. I was still a modified/slowpitch batter with moderate power.
Maybe it helped pay attention while a pitcher was doing pitcher things?
NOT a PED.