The Dark Side of the Diamond

The Trial That Should Have Changed Baseball

I’ve been digging into the 1985 Pittsburgh Drug Trials for Dark Side of the Diamond. This wasn’t a part of the game that got talked about growing up. No highlight reels. No documentaries. No Cooperstown plaques with a footnote. But the more I read, the more it feels like one of the most important and quietly buried moments in baseball history.

The trial …