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Posted By: Al Crisafulli

Even if 100% of the players took greenies (which I wouldn't doubt), I don't think it negates the advantage. Mostly because I don't think amphetamines give you an advantage over other players - I think they gave players the ability to play hard in games where they otherwise may have dragged through, or not even played.

In that respect, I think a great player who used greenies to get through 20 or 30 games during a season would just have had the same stats in those games as normal. However, a guy hitting a home run every 18 at bats who used greenies to get through 30 games would have hit, statistically speaking, about 6.7 home runs in those 30 games. If he played those games when fatigued, or sat the bench, perhaps his stats wouldn't have been as strong. Perhaps they would have. Who knows?

-Al