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What happens when your love of a sport is built on a major-league lie? Sportswriter Joan Niesen was a kid in St. Louis in the summer of 1998, when the home run race made baseball magic. Mark McGwire was her favorite player, and she tracked his every move that season as he chased baseball immortality. But the spectacle of that summer was not what it seemed. McGwire and countless other players had been using anabolic steroids for years. Now, Joan is revisiting the steroid era to untangle the truth from its many myths and search for answers. What happens when our heroes let us down? What can those years tell us about sports culture in America? And what is the legacy of baseball’s farthest-reaching scandal?

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39 episoder

#Sports #Religion of Sports | PRX #Binge-Worthy True Crime #Binge-Worthy Documentary #False Idols #True Crime #Storytelling #Soccer #Religion Of Sports

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CRUSHED Part 1: The Feel-Good Story

ROS Presents: Counterattack

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published 3+ y ago

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MP3•Episod hem

Innehåll tillhandahållet av Religion of Sports and Religion of Sports | PRX. Allt poddinnehåll inklusive avsnitt, grafik och podcastbeskrivningar laddas upp och tillhandahålls direkt av Religion of Sports and Religion of Sports | PRX eller deras podcastplattformspartner. Om du tror att någon använder ditt upphovsrättsskyddade verk utan din tillåtelse kan du följa processen som beskrivs här https://sv.player.fm/legal.

What happens when your love of a sport is built on a major-league lie? Sportswriter Joan Niesen was a kid in St. Louis in the summer of 1998, when the home run race made baseball magic. Mark McGwire was her favorite player, and she tracked his every move that season as he chased baseball immortality. But the spectacle of that summer was not what it seemed. McGwire and countless other players had been using anabolic steroids for years. Now, Joan is revisiting the steroid era to untangle the truth from its many myths and search for answers. What happens when our heroes let us down? What can those years tell us about sports culture in America? And what is the legacy of baseball’s farthest-reaching scandal?

… continue reading

39 episoder

#Sports #Religion of Sports | PRX #Binge-Worthy True Crime #Binge-Worthy Documentary #False Idols #True Crime #Storytelling #Soccer #Religion Of Sports

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