
Playing Through the Pain
Ken Caminiti and the Steroids Confession That Changed Baseball Forever
Failed to add items
Add to Cart failed.
Add to Wish List failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Adding to library failed
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
3 months free
Buy for $21.49
No default payment method selected.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
-
Narrated by:
-
Tom Parks
-
By:
-
Dan Good
In Playing Through the Pain, writer Dan Good seeks to make sense of MLB MVP Ken Caminiti's fascinating, troubled life. Good began researching Caminiti in 2012 and conducted his first interviews for his biography in 2013. Since then, he's interviewed nearly 400 people, providing him with an exclusive and exhaustive view into Caminiti's addictions, use of steroids, baseball successes, and inner turmoil.
Decades later, the full truth about Major League Baseball's steroids era remains elusive, and the story of Caminiti, the player who opened the lid on performance-enhancing drugs in baseball, has never been properly told. Caminiti voluntarily admitted in a 2002 Sports Illustrated cover story that he used steroids during his career, including his 1996 MVP season, and guessed that half of the players were using performance-enhancing drugs.
Good's on-the-record sources include Caminiti's steroids supplier, who has never come forward; people who attended rehab with Caminiti and revealed the secret inner trauma that fueled his addictions; hundreds of Caminiti's baseball teammates and coaches; childhood friends who were drawn to his daring personality, warmth, and athleticism; and the teenager at the center of Caminiti's October 2004 trip to New York City, during which he overdosed and died.
©2022 Dan Good (P)2022 TantorListeners also enjoyed...




















Just Say No… to this book
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I do think that the narrator mispronounced several names or was inconsistent. Well... that's not how they were pronounced for years by commentators.
heartbreaking
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
A biography of the player
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Also creatine is nothing like anabolics or hgh. Creatine isn’t bad. It isn’t a hormone. It is an energy system used in our bodies (ATP-pCr system). Creatine, which has been researched and proven to be very good for everyone, shouldn’t even be in the same conversation as any steroids or hormones.
Dull Reader, decent story
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
So sad...
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Sad story — painful
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
A thorough & well researched story of Caminiti
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
1. For the love of God if you’re going to narrate a book with dozens of players names maybe research a bit so you pronounce them correctly??? It gets really annoying after a while especially with some of the easier names he still manages to get wrong.
2. The writer does a good job discussing the steroid issue in MLB and points out how wide spread the use likely was. For some inexplicable reason he ignores the same type of issue and brings up the 2017 sign stealing scandal with the Astros in an epilogue praising a widely known bad dude/ pedophile Mike Feirs for “coming clean”. Considering what we now know 5 years later (book written in 22) using technology to steal signs was done by multiple teams going back as far as the late 80’s…this just makes the writer look like he’s selectively pointing the finger.
Theses complaints aside, I enjoyed the book.
Surprised
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Snoozer
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.