Correction: Major League Baseball saw 2 million downloads not page views.
A steroid scandal may have irreparably tarnished baseball's image but it sure generated plenty of page views.
Major League Baseball released a report Thursday on the prevalence of performance enhancing drugs in the game and a copy of the report was downloaded from the league's Web site more than 2 million times.
The number would have likely been higher had popular sports sites operated by Sports Illustrated, ESPN and others, not posted copies as well.
An investigation by former Senator George Mitchell implicated more than 80 past and present major leaguers with steroid use, including Roger Clemens, Miguel Tejada, Andy Pettitte and Lenny Dykstra.
For those interested in checking whether their favorite professional baseball player is a cheat, Major League Baseball has posted a report on steroid use among current and former players.
Miguel Tejada allegedly paid by check for steroids
(Credit: Major League Baseball)The 304-page report can be found at mlb.com/mitchrpt.pdf (PDF). The document is the result of an investigation conducted by former Senator George Mitchell, who is scheduled to hold a press conference this morning.
MLB executives hired Mitchell in 2006.
Mitchell rounded up the usual suspects in his report, such as Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Gary Sheffield, and the brothers, Jason and Jeremy Giambi. But among the surprise players implicated by Mitchell are Miguel Tejada, Kevin Brown, David Justice, Lenny Dykstra and Paul Lo Duca.
A spokesman for Major League Baseball Advanced Media, the group that oversees league's digital operations, said the group is prepared to handle any kind of spike in Web site traffic.
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