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Sometimes we all need a reminder that steroids, although it has become a huge issue in the past decade, has rooted itself in the landscape of baseball much earlier than the seasons that Mark McGwire and Barry Bonds broke single-season home run records. No no, former Reds and Marlins trainer Larry Starr reminds us, through the prism of his experience, that steroids have been a problem long before then.

"Here's the thing that really bothers me," Starr said in a recent interview with FLORIDA TODAY. "They sit there, meaning the commissioner's office, Bud Selig and that group, and the players' association, Don Fehr and that group ... they sit there and say, 'Well, now that we know that this happened we're going to do something about it. I have notes from the Winter Meetings where the owners group and the players' association sat in meetings with the team physicians and team trainers. I was there. And team physicians stood up and said, 'Look, we need to do something about this. We've got a problem here if we don't do something about it.' That was in 1988."

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