* Decades earlier than 1960

* The first was a professional baseball player, the first pitcher to win 300 games, who played from 1875 to 1892

* John Grimek, the first Mr America

* Injectable synthetic testosterone was first synthesized and manufactured by 1940

* The Prohormone “Androstenedione” (Mark McGuire) was first synthesized in 1938 and recognized as an “athletic performance enhancer”

* Hitler, the German soldiers and Steve Reeves

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