Chapter[ IX. The Threat Posed By Internet Sales of Steroids and Human Growth
Hormone ]
Section[ Steve Woodard ]
Steve Woodard
In a September 7, 2007 article, the New York Daily News reported that Steve
Woodard, a former pitcher who played with four different major league clubs over seven seasons
ending in 2003 (the Milwaukee Brewers, Cleveland Indians, Texas Rangers, and Boston
Red Sox), received a shipment of steroids and human growth hormone from The Health and
Rejuvenation Center, the same Palm Beach Gardens anti-aging center that reportedly supplied
St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Rick Ankiel.507 The article did not state when the shipment to
Woodard allegedly occurred.
Neither I nor any member of my investigative staff had any prior knowledge of
any allegation about Woodard.
507 T.J. Quinn, Christian Red, Michael O’Keefe, and Bill Madden, Rick Ankiel Received
12-Month Supply of HGH, News Learns, N.Y. Daily News, Sept. 7, 2007.
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