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Posted By: Greg Ecklund

Cy,
Certainly alcohol was one of Ruth's ways to get rid of his abundance of energy, but the Babe certainly would have found other outlets (more women? more food? more dangling Miller Huggins off of trains?) if alcohol wasn't available to him. Steroids, on the other hand, are taken with specific intent to enhance athletic performance...alcohol doesn't enhance muscle growth or speed up recovery from workouts.