Kirk Radomski Talks About Dealing Steroids, Jeff Novitsky and Mitchell Report

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In Book, Radomski Talks About Dealing Drugs and Dealing With Mitchell
New York Times, United States
The book, “Bases Loaded” (Hudson Street Press), will go on sale within a week. But a reporter for The New York Times was given permission by a bookstore employee to look through a copy Monday. The 256-page book does not appear to make any startling assertions about drug use in baseball. It spends a considerable amount of time describing how Radomski, a onetime Mets bat boy, became a key figure in baseball’s steroids era.

In one of the more interesting passages, Radomski described how he first encountered the federal agent Jeff Novitzky. On an early morning in December 2005, Radomski opened the front door of his Long Island home while in his underwear and found Novitzky standing there, holding a search warrant.

That fateful meeting led to Radomski’s cooperation with Mitchell and, ultimately, to a guilty plea that resulted in probation but no jail time. Radomski appears to harbor no bitterness over this chain of events, and at one point in the book says how fairly he believes Novitzky treated him.

In a portion of the book that is likely to attract attention, Radomski states that he was asked by Mitchell about a handful of major leaguers who were not among his dozens of customers and who did not end up being named in the Mitchell report.

Radomski names this group of players in his book — several of them have been previously linked to performance-enhancing drugs in other books — and says that he told Mitchell that he had no firsthand knowledge about their possible use of drugs.
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