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Mariners host area youth in PLAY event
- Updated: August 9, 2016
SEATTLE — Don Hooton Jr. stood in front of a group of 8-12-year-olds sitting in the stands up the first base line at Safeco Field tasked with talking to them about performance enhancing drugs. So he started with a story about his younger brother Taylor Hooton’s high school years.
“He wanted to look better, he wanted to put on muscle, he wanted to make the varsity team,” Hooton told his audience. “So he made an uneducated decision, like so many of our young people do. When he was in high school he began using anabolic steroids. So the first message that I want to leave you with is just after his 17th birthday, he was dead.”
That got their attention. Hooton, vice president of the Taylor Hooton Foundation, came to Seattle Monday as a part of the National PLAY Campaign. The Professional Baseball Athletic Trainers Association …
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