WASHINGTON -- The Commissioner of Major League Baseball and the head of the Players Association both conceded to a Congressional committee on Tuesday that they were slow in recognizing the impact of performance-enhancing drugs on the sport."I'll take the responsibility," Bud Selig said during a nearly 55-minute session in which he and Don Fehr, the executive director of the union, were cross-examined by members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. "That's why I wanted this report."
"Certainly, we didn't pay attention soon enough," Fehr said.
In the wake last month of the report issued by former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell analyzing the use of performance-enhancing drugs in baseball, the same Committee that bashed the sport nearly three years ago for its pace in dealing with the drug issue called some of the same people back together on Tuesday.
Former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell returned to Capitol Hill on Tuesday and gave virtually the same rendition of his report on Major League Baseball's steroid era to a Congressional committee as the one he rendered to the public on Dec. 13, when it was released.With one addition: Mitchell stood behind the testimony of Brian McNamee, the former personal trainer for Roger Clemens and Andy Pettitte, who told Mitchell and federal investigators that he had injected both pitchers with performance-enhancing drugs.
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