The list of players who have been suspended by Major League Baseball since 2005 for taking banned substances is 42 pages long, and it includes a passel of pharmacological quick fixes like boldenone, clenbuterol, formestane and stanozolol.
But recently, three players — the major leaguers Daniel Stumpf of the Phillies and Chris Colabello of the Blue Jays and the minor leaguer Kameron Loe — were suspended for taking Turinabol, an anabolic steroid straight out of a doping time machine.
The drug, whose chemical compound is dehydrochlormethyltestosterone, was widely used by athletes in East Germany.