A hefty report detailing the use of performance enhancing drugs in Major League Baseball will be released to the public tomorrow afternoon.
The report from former Sen. George Mitchell, the lead investigator of the inquiry, will be available on MLB.com, following a press conference at 2 p.m.. MLB Commissioner Bud Selig will also hold a press conference at 4:30 p.m.
Mitchell, now chairman of the law firm DLA Piper, was appointed by Selig in March of 2006 to investigate the use of steroids, human growth hormone and similar drugs in the game. Over the last 20 months, Mitchell and his team have interviewed hundreds of people in baseball, though he reportedly received little cooperation from current players. Mitchell is expected to name dozens of current and former players with ties to performance-enhancing drugs in his report.
Selig was motivated to investigate the steroids issue after the publishing of the book "Game of Shadows" that detailed the relationship of former Giants slugger Barry Bonds to the Bay-Area Laboratory Cooperative (BALCO), a group under investigation by the federal government for distributing steroids to athletes.
