Guide Note:

The Mitchell Report is the unofficial name given to the findings of an investigation by former U.S. Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell into the use of banned substances such as steroids and HGH in Major League Baseball. The report, released on December 13, 2007, named 89 current and former baseball players who may have used or trafficked in such substances.

Fast Facts:

1. Mitchell appointed to head investigation in March 2006
2. Full title of Mitchell Report: 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
3. Number of players named: 89
4. Length of investigation: 20 months
5. Number of people interviewed: 700+
6. Report features many superstar names including Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Andy Pettitte, Miguel Tejada, and Gary Sheffield
7. George Mitchell was asked by Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig to investigate the use of steroids in baseball

Mitchell noted that almost all of the baseball players he had requested interviews with had refused to meet with him and Mitchell believed this was the result of the Major League Baseball Players Association actively discouraging such meetings. The only two then-active players to meet with Mitchell were Frank Thomas and Jason Giambi. Mitchell's most damaging testimony came from two former employees of the New York Mets and the New York Yankees: clubhouse attendant Kurt Radomski, and former Yankees trainer Brian McNamee. McNamee named his former private client Roger Clemens as a frequent abuser of steroids, a charge that Clemens later vehemently denied in sworn testimony before Congress.