“I was like a pioneer for that stuff … The juice. I was like the very first to do that. Me and [Jose] Canseco,” former Major League outfielder Lenny Dykstra says in the book “The Zeroes: My Misadventures in the Decade Wall Street Went Insane,” written by Randall Lane.

Dykstra admits in the book that he used performance enhancing drugs during this time with the Phillies.

“At first it wasn’t even illegal. Then, after a few years, I had to go to a doctor, and get a prescription,” Dykstra says in a book excerpt. “You know how I got my stuff? Just walking into a pharmacy, bro. It was as simple as that.”

Here’s another quote backing up his reasons for taking PEDs:

“You gotta understand, there were only 28 people who had my job in the whole world.” He was referring to the fact that there were only 28 Major League Baseball teams (there are now 30), and that each only had one starting centerfielder. “And thousands of people wanted those jobs, and every year, there were guys trying to take my job.

“So I needed to do anything I could to protect my job, take care of my family. Do you have any idea how much money was at stake? Do you?”

Lane eventually concluded that Dykstra stole $25 million from the Phillies since he could never live up to the four-year contract that he signed with the club before the 1995 season.
Information from Paul Hagen of Philly.com was used in this article.