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.

On November 26, 2008, George Mitchell revealed in an interview that he feels drug use is down in baseball due to his report released in 2007. Mitchell stated, "The impression I get is that it's had a significant impact of reducing usage, although that still remains very difficult to measure with any complete precision."ESPN.com: Mitchell thinks drug use down in MLB (November 26, 2008)

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.

• ESPN.com: OTL: Has MLB Changed Since The Mitchell Report? (December 12, 2008)

• Wikipedia: Steroids in baseball

• ESPN.com: Baseball Mitchell Report News

• Google News: Baseball Mitchell Report

• Washington Post: Drugs Probe Panel Member: Players Not Likely to Testify (December 28, 2007)

• MLB.com: Mitchell Report released (December 13, 2007)

• CNN.com: Report to name pro baseball's steroid users (December 13, 2007)

• SI.com: Clemens, Bonds, Tejada named in Mitchell Report (December 13, 2007)

• SI.com: More names will surface in the Mitchell Report's wake (December 13, 2007)

• SI.com: Mitchell Report to name MVPs, All-Stars, won't address amphetamines (December 13, 2007)

• New York Daily News: Yankees' Clemens, Pettitte named... (December 13, 2007)

• ESPN.com: Sources: Forthcoming Mitchell report will be 'huge story' (October 13, 2007)

• ESPN.com: Players who possessed banned substances may be suspended (October 11, 2007)

• USA Today: Mitchell's Steroid probe may expand (September 7, 2007)

• SI.com: Ex-Mets Clubby talks to Mitchell (August 21, 2007)

• ESPN.com: Source: Parameters of Giambi testimony finalized (June 19, 2007)

• New York Times: Baseball's Steroid Panel asks active players to Appear (May 5, 2007)

• MSNBC.com: Mitchell says 'roids probe 'extremely difficult' (March 2, 2007)

• USA Today: Mitchell warns baseball Congress may intervene (January 18, 2007)

• Boston.com: Mitchell: Steroids probe lacks power (2006)

• New York Times: Mitchell Is Expected to Oversee Inquiry Into Steroid Use (2006)

• ESPN.com: Baseball, Steroids and the truth (2002)

• New York Times: The Mitchell Report: Name by Name

• MLNSports.com: The Perfect Test , SZ - MiLB's "Model" System blown apart by the Mitchell Report

• MLNSports.com: Pound of Cure, SZ - Inteview with WADA's Dick Pound

• MLNSports.com: At What Cost Peace - Selig Mocks Mitchell Report by Shaving Steroid Suspensions -SZ In-depth investigation two years post-Mitchell