A Baseball Lover, Key to Tarnishing a Yankee Era

Brian McNamee is a former New House Of York City police force military officer from Queens who have cherished the game of baseball game since he was a child in the Rockaways and who twice establish himself in the usage of the . But today he stand ups as the adult male who delivered a rattling blow to the squad by linking two celebrated Yankees — and — to the use of illegal, performance-enhancing drugs. Related (December 15, 2007) (December 15, 2007) (December 15, 2007) (December 15, 2007) (December 15, 2007)

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It is the 40-year-old Mr. McNamee who provided unquestionable heftiness to the acerb 400-plus-page study that the former Senator delivered Thursday. The study golf course about 90 current and former major leaguers to public presentation foils and states that Major League Baseball and the participants labor union share the incrimination for allowing the job to turn so wide.

Among the name calling of players, it is Mr. Samuel Langhorne Clemens and Mr. Pettitte who stand up out most. Between 1996 and 2000, Mr. Pettitte claimed four title rings with the Yankees, in what was the most successful portion of ’s Twelve seasons as Yankees manager. Mr. Samuel Langhorne Clemens collected two rings in that period, in 1999 and 2000. But now because of the determination of Mr. McNamee, a former trainer, to collaborate with Mr. R. J. Mitchell and federal agents, Mr. Clemens, Mr. Pettitte and that Northerner epoch all base tarnished.

A personal trainer for both Mr. Samuel Langhorne Samuel Langhorne Samuel Langhorne Clemens and Mr. Pettitte, Mr. McNamee told Mr. Mitchell’s staff that on numerous occasions he had injected Mr. Clemens with steroids and that he had injected Mr. Pettitte with human growing hormone.

“There’s no uncertainty in my head that he was telling the truth,” said C. J. Nitkowski, a former major conference hurler who have known Mr. McNamee for more than than 10 years. Nitkowski said he had never seen Mr. Samuel Langhorne Clemens or Mr. Pettitte take performance-enhancing drugs, but he added of McNamee, “He’s got no ground to lie.”

Mr. Nitkowski, who spoke with McNamee on Friday, added: “This is killing him to have got to make this. I cognize it is. But when it come ups down to going to jail, that’s when you halt protecting friends and start thought about your family.”

While Mr. McNamee have emerged as a seminal figure in the report, baseball game game fans cognize adjacent to nil about him.

Mr. McNamee was raised in the Breezy Point subdivision of Queens, on the westward stop of the Rockaway Peninsula, an country with many police military unit force officers, like his father.

As a youngster, Mr. McNamee was drawn to baseball and became a catcher, playing at Archbishop Molloy High School in Queens and then at , which he attended from 1986 through 1989, majoring in athletic administration, according to a spokesman for the university, Saint Dominic Sianna.

Mr. McNamee later joined the New House Of York City police force for three years, serving two of them as an clandestine officer. He left the military unit in May 1993, the twelvemonth that he met Tim McCleary, then an helper full general director of the Yankees.

Mr. McCleary had also attended St. John’s, and he hired Mr. McNamee for two necessary, if unglamorous, functions with the Yankees — bullpen catcher and batting pattern pitcher. There he remained, tossing pitches to Yankees batters and catching pitches from Yankees stands-in until the 1996 season.

From there, baseball game drew him to Toronto, where Mr. McCleary had go the helper full general director of the . In 1998, the Blue Jays hired Mr. McNamee as their strength and conditioning coach, a place he held for about two years.

And it was in that capacity that Mr. McNamee met Mr. Clemens, who had joined Toronto a twelvemonth earlier after a decennary of laterality for the . According to the business relationship that Mr. McNamee gave to Mr. Mitchell’s investigators, Mr. Samuel Langhorne Samuel Langhorne Samuel Langhorne Samuel Langhorne Clemens asked him about steroids in June 1998 and later that summertime asked Mr. McNamee to shoot him with a steroid that Mr. Clemens had obtained.

After that season, Mr. Clemens, still looking for his first title ring, forced a trade to the Yankees. A twelvemonth later, Mr. McNamee followed. This time, he had a new Yankees assignment: helper strength and conditioning coach.

“According to McNamee, the Yankees hired him because Samuel Langhorne Clemens persuaded them to make so,” the study said. “McNamee was paid both by the Yankees and by Samuel Langhorne Samuel Langhorne Clemens personally.”

Mr. McNamee told Mr. Mitchell’s research workers he injected Mr. Clemens with steroids and H.G.H. inch the 2000 and 2001 seasons. As for Mr. Pettitte, Mr. McNamee said he initially advised him against using H.G.H. but then injected him in 2002. Through a lawyer, Mr. Samuel Langhorne Clemens have disputed the allegations. Mr. Pettitte have yet to comment.

Meanwhile, in October of 2001, Mr. McNamee became a suspect in a sexual battery lawsuit at the Renaissance Vinoy Resort in St. Petersburg, Fla., piece the Yankees were playing a series with the .

According to patrol and hotel reports, a security guard saw Mr. McNamee and a 40-year-old woman, both of whom were naked, in the hotel pool at about 3:45 a.m. on Oct. Six during a regular baseball game season that had been extended because of the terrorist onslaughts on Sept. 11. The security guard said that Mr. McNamee appeared to be having sexual activity with the adult female while another bare adult male was standing off to the side.

Eventually, after everyone exited the pool, “the adult female was like jelly and could not stand up on her own,” the hotel incident study stated. 1

Jack Curry, John Tyler Kepner, William K. Rashbaum, Aluminum Baker, Ann Farmer and Carolyn Thornton Wilder contributed reporting.