As many as 104 major league baseball players could be subpoenaed by federal investigators in connection with the BALCO steroid distribution case after the United States attorney's office obtained positive steroid test results from 2003, according to a published report that appeared on ESPN.com yesterday.
The results, The New York Times reported, were part of the 2003 tests conducted by Major League Baseball that were intended to be anonymous. But through some deft legal maneuvering, the U.S. government seized the records from two different companies hired to provide the tests.
An anonymous source told the newspaper that the federal government plans to question all 104 players about their positive steroid tests and how they obtained whatever substance was found in their urine sample.
The potential list of suppliers named by the players would be sent to federal prosecutors around the country. The investigations that result from that information could lead to names of players being revealed in court documents.
– FROM NEWS SERVICES
