Report to the Commissioner of Baseball of an Independent Investigation into the Illegal Use of Steroids and Other Performance Enhancing Substances by Players in Major League Baseball, informally known as the Mitchell Report, is the result of former Democratic United States Senator from Maine George J Mitchell's 20-month investigation into the use of anabolic steroids and human growth hormone in Major League Baseball.
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Former Senate Majority Leader, federal prosecutor, and ex-chairman of The Walt Disney Company, George Mitchell Report was appointed by Commissioner of Baseball Bud Selig on March 30,2006 to investigate the use of performance-enhancing drugs in MLB.
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Mitchell Report's investigation focused on high-profile players, without investigating the role teams played.
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Mitchell Report was able to secure Radomski's cooperation through San Francisco, California, US Attorney Scott Schools.
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Mitchell Report reached a plea bargain that was conditioned upon his cooperation with the Mitchell investigation.
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Mitchell Report is a former strength coach for the New York Yankees and Toronto Blue Jays.
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The Mitchell Report alleges that McNamee helped acquire performance-enhancing drugs including steroids, amphetamines, and human growth hormone for some or all of the players he personally trained.
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Mitchell Report describes motivations for its preparation, including health effects of steroids, legal issues, fair play, and reports that baseball players acted as role models for child athletes.
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Mitchell Report accepted some responsibility for the steroid problems but expressed concern for how the league would treat the players named in the report.
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Major League Baseball's drug testing policy became more strict after the Mitchell Report came out, allegedly in hopes of stopping steroid use in professional baseball.
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Mitchell Report was leaked to the San Francisco Chronicle shortly prior to the deciding game seven of the 2007 American League Championship Series between the Cleveland Indians and the Boston Red Sox, although it was not officially released until December, months after the series was over.
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Dowd, who had defended Senator John McCain of Arizona during the Keating Five investigation in the late 1980s, cited how he took exception to Mitchell Report's scolding of McCain and others for having a conflict of interest with their actions in the case and how the baseball investigation would be a "burden" for him when Mitchell Report was named to lead it.
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Los Angeles Times reported that Mitchell acknowledged that his "tight relationship with Major League Baseball left him open to criticism".
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