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Ah, spring! When the
thoughts of men and boys turn to sandlots and strikeouts. Spring also brings the Twenty-Eighth Annual Fodderstack 10-K Race, which will run from the Vierling’s Packing Shed in Flint Hill to Washington.
This year, the beefiness of sluggers will give way to the slightly less pharmacologically-induced skill of the wicked slider. Steroid use having now been revealed to have been rampant in Major League Baseball, it falls now to us to reveal the dirty little secret of performance enhancing steroids in the Fodderstack’s past.
You might not initially believe that runners would benefit by the bulk produced by steroid use (and you’d be right), not to mention hormonal imbalances and wild mood swings. Nevertheless, there are those few who constantly look for an edge, little reckoning that they stand just as likely to be cut, as to cut with
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