"We can jump to this conclusion: that steroids have sullied the game. My hope is that this report is a part of putting the steroid era of baseball behind us." - GEORGE W. BUSH, U.S. president and former owner of the Rangers.

The Major League Baseball issues the Mitchell Report, a 409-page document and a paper trail of 115,000 copies of receipts, canceled checks, telephone records, and e-mail messages, twenty months after Commissioner Bud Selling ordered the outside investigation. The much-anticipated findings, authored by former Senator George Mitchell, call the steroid era a collective failure, naming 89 former and present players who allegedly used illegal, performance-enhancing drugs, including stars Roger Clemens, Barry Bonds, and Gary Sheffield.