Ex-player Segui admits HGH use

0 Comments | USA TODAY, June, 2006 | by Bob Nightengale

Former Major League Baseball player David Segui revealed Sunday that he used human growth hormone during his 15-year career and confirmed that former teammate Jason Grimsley identified him to federal agents as using illegal performance-enhancing drugs.

Grimsley told federal agents the names of several major league players who used steroids, HGH and amphetamines in an affidavit April19. The names were blacked out in court records.

"I didn't have to read too far into the affidavit before I recognized a conversation that he and I had had," Segui told ESPN in a television interview that aired Sunday. "So, you know, immediately I realized that my name was one of the first names that was tossed out there."

Segui, 39, who played parts of 15 seasons in the big...