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It was just a casual conversation one day in the weight room betweenJeff Bagwell and Morgan Ensberg, the corner infielders for theHouston Astros. Bagwell was trying to bench-press his usual 300 pounds, and he mentioned to Ensberg that some players around the game had gotten huge by using steroids.
“I never did ’em,” Bagwell said, and that was good enough for Ensberg.
“He flat-out told me that he never did anything, and I believe him,” Ensberg said the other day, over the phone from his home in San Diego. “I would go to the grave with that. And if it turns out that he did? Well, the information I have is that he didn’t because that’s what I was told.”
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