Former Baseball player Mark McGwire and wife Stephanie Slemer attend the 2005 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue press conference to announce the covergirl on February 15, 2005 in New York City. The 2005 Swimsuit issue went on sale today featuring model Carolyn Murphy on the cover. (Getty Images)more pics »There was a time when former MLB star Mark McGwire could do no wrong, when he was respected on the field and when his career seemed destined for the hall of fame. But all of that was shattered in 2005, when McGwire, who had retired from the Cardinals in 2001, refused to testify under oath about his steroid use at a Congressional hearing.

As if that wasn't enough, now his estranged younger brother is apparently releasing a tell all book about their excessive use of performance enhancing drugs. Deadspin reports that Jay McGwire has been shopping his book, The McGwire Family Secret: The Truth About Steroids, a Slugger and Ultimate Redemption, to some big name publishing houses.

Not surprisingly, many publishers have turned him down. After all, although McGwire enjoyed a successful career, he wasn't exactly an Alex Rodriguez or Barry Bonds.

In his book Jay claims he turned his older brother onto steiroids, essentially becoming his go-to guy. In an excerpt from his book Jay writes:
Shortly after I won the Contra Costa Bodybuilding Championships in May of 1994 Mark took the plunge. I accompanied him to Sacramento where we met with my supplier and trainer, who explained to him how the different drugs would work on his body and answered a myriad of questions from Mark... Mark began to use, but in low dosages so he wouldn't lift his way out of baseball... I became the first person to inject him, like most first-timers he couldn't plunge in the needle himself. Later a girlfriend injected him." Before you choose to believe everything Jay has to say, you should know that he's the least successful of the McGwire clan (Their other brother, Dan was a quarterback for the Seattle Seahawks) and that the two haven't spoken in years.

Still, Jay claims he didn't write the book just to make some money off of his older bro:
Mark is a man I think most would like to forgive because his reason wasn't nefarious -- it was for survival. My brining the truth to surface about Mark is out of love. I want Mark to live in truth to see the light, to come to repentance so he can live in freedom -- which is the only way to live." Something tells me Mark is going to be pretty pissed off about this book, and repentance is the last thing he's going to think about.

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