They all learned how to maintain their pitching arms from Tom House. ...

OTOH, so did Mitch Williams, Bobby Witt, Jose Cecena, Jose Guzman, Ed Correa, Brian Bohanon, and the perpetually injured Dan Smith.

House was also an early adopter of steroids, describing attitudes of the time thusly:

"I pretty much popped everything cold turkey," House said. "We were doing steroids they wouldn't give to horses. That was the '60s, when nobody knew."

House, a former pitching coach with the Texas Rangers and co-founder of the National Pitching Association near San Diego, is one of the first players to describe steroid use as far back as the 1960s.

House, 58, estimated that six or seven pitchers per team were at least experimenting with steroids or human growth hormone. He said players talked about losing to opponents using more effective drugs.

"We didn't get beat, we got out-milligrammed," he said. "And when you found out what they were taking, you started taking them."

The headline gets an F. It was "Game" of thrones ... there is no King of Thrones, the King sits on the throne. Surely that's no later than week 2 in Headline Puns 101.

Wow, thank you #1. I'd never heard that widespread use started that early.

5 year old Tom House doing steroids in the 60s. Man that is hard core.

5 year old Tom House doing steroids in the 60s. Man that is hard core.

?????

You know House was pitching in the minors by 1967, right?

the quote seems to say he is 58 years old.

Geez, I only submitted this 5 days ago. I wonder what the record is for time lapses on submissions?

As for House's steroid use in the 60's, that quote is just clickbait. He made that claim in the context of saying how players would try to get high on banana peels and dirty socks. All that crap was about as performance enhancing as rubbing a rosary bead. In his 1989 book he had an entire chapter devoted to drugs in the 60's and 70's, and not once did he even mention steroids. The drugs he mentioned were strictly amps and recreational drugs.

House is 75 years old - but he may have been only 58 when St. Nick first submitted the link

The quote is from a USA Today article from May of 2005.

The quote is from a USA Today article from May of 2005.

So why didn't House mention steroids in his 1989 book, when he devoted an entire chapter to drug use in the 60's and 70's? Obviously because he knew that in the 60's and the 70's steroids were more of a curiosity, like Babe Ruth's goat testicles, than any sort of actual performance enhancer. But by 2005, when steroids talk was still raging, what better clickbait than to bring up a point that previously he'd seen as irrelevant?

So why didn't House mention steroids in his 1989 book, when he devoted an entire chapter to drug use in the 60's and 70's? Obviously because he knew that in the 60's and the 70's steroids were more of a curiosity, like Babe Ruth's goat testicles, than any sort of actual performance enhancer. But by 2005, when steroids talk was still raging, what better clickbait than to bring up a point that previously he'd seen as irrelevant?

Also a possibility: because Tom House is chronically full of ####.

So why didn't House mention steroids in his 1989 book, when he devoted an entire chapter to drug use in the 60's and 70's?

Book Writing 101, save something for your second book?

Babe Ruth's goat testicles

The Babe had goat's testicles? Hah, I just kid....

So why didn't House mention steroids in his 1989 book, when he devoted an entire chapter to drug use in the 60's and 70's?

Book Writing 101, save something for your second book?

Any day now! As soon as Tim Tebow wins a Super Bowl!

Babe Ruth's goat testicles


The Babe had goat's testicles? Hah, I just kid....

Maybe Nick meant Babe Ruth's G.O.A.T. Testicles?