Words Of Doom?
A former trainer, Larry Starr, both the Reds and Marlins spoke to George Mitchell and offered a few words … words of potential doom…
Larry Starr, a trainer for 30 years with the Cincinnati Reds and Florida Marlins, was among those who tried to warn baseball almost two decades ago that trouble was brewing. Retired from the game and currently an assistant athletic director at Nova Southeastern, he laments if only those in charge had listened.
“Here’s the thing that really bothers me,” Starr said in a recent interview with FLORIDA TODAY. “They sit there, meaning the commissioner’s office, Bud Selig and that group, and the players’ association, Don Fehr and that group . . . they sit there and say, ‘Well, now that we know that this happened we’re going to do something about it.’
“I have notes from the Winter Meetings where the owners group and the players’ association sat in meetings with the team physicians and team trainers. I was there. And team physicians stood up and said, ‘Look, we need to do something about this. We’ve got a problem here if we don’t do something about it.’ That was in 1988.”
Like I have said, baseball allowed this all to happen and were enablers. When MLB admits their role, we all can move on from the so-called, “Steroid Era”…
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