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sfgate.com Businesses  « Back to Article  Ray Ratto: A-Rod is
latest tip of an entire industry's iceberg  Published 4:00 am,
Sunday, February 8, 2009   • Chronicle columnist, Ray Ratto,
stands for a photograph inside the studio on Tuesday Jan. 27,
2008 in San Francisco,Calif. Photo: Michael Macor, The Chronicle
Larger | Smaller Email This Page 1 of 1  So it's semi-official
now - nobody can save baseball's numbers.  Yeah, like that
mattered.  According to a report on SI.com authored by Selena
Roberts and David Epstein, Alex Rodriguez, the man best
positioned to overtake Barry Bonds' home run record and the
game's most impressive offensive specimen, allegedly tested
positive for testosterone and the anabolic steroid Primobolan in
2003. This after he denied early, often and publicly that he had
ever used any performance-enhancing drugs, and long after he had
been held aloft as the man who could save baseball from its
decadeslong reputation as a glorif