Keith Olbermann: “Pud Galvin’s statue should be outside the Steroid Hall of Fame.”
Steroids have been involved with baseball way before Mark McGwire and Barry Bonds even picked up a bat. It turns out, steroids have been around the game since the late 1880s. In fact, the very first steroid user is said to be baseball’s first 300-game winner, Hall of famer, Pud Galvin.
Today on “The Dan Patrick Show” on ESPN Radio, Keith Olbermann (MSNBC: Countdown with Keith Olbermann) credited Galvin with being the first baseball player to have used performance enhancing drugs. According to Olbermann, the steroid of choice those days was monkey testosterone — a big fad in the late 19th century due to its ability to make men feel revitalized.
Olbermann went on to say that a statue of Pud Galvin should be erected outside the (fictional) Steroid Hall of Fame. Dan Patrick added that the statue should have Galvin bent over with a needle in his rear end.
Although Pud Galvin is the pioneer of steroids in baseball, he was also a great athlete, and should be remembered for his accomplishments on the field, not immortalized in stone, giving himself an injection in a monkey crouch.
Thank you, Tom, for bringing this to our attention at work. Luckily, we were able to rewind our Sirius radios and hear it too.