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Baseball's Youngsters Weigh In on Drug Use

Youths on a baseball team in suburban Phoenix love baseball so much, they play it all year long. The kids react to the release of the George Mitchell report, which found widespread use of performance-enhancing drugs by Major League Baseball players.

Mark Moran reports from member station KJZZ.

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Mark Moran is a veteran journalist who began his reporting career in Alaska covering the environment, local government and the Oil Industry. He moved south and opened Iowa Public Radio's State capitol bureau where he covered the state legislature, Iowa's presidential caucuses and statewide issues. Heading over to Arizona, Moran was News Director and then VP of News for the NPR station in Phoenix. There, he helped create the Fronteras Desk, a bi-national reporting network covering issues of immigration, demographics, cultural and social issues and opened bureaus in the U.S. Southwest and Mexico. He likes dogs and horses and spends as much time outdoors as possible.