Glenallen Hill's name entered baseball's steroid era reckoning through two separate investigative threads. In the Mitchell Report, former clubhouse supplier Kirk Radomski said he met Hill at a social function in 2000, when Hill allegedly complained that earlier use of human growth hormone had produced disappointing results. Radomski claimed he gave Hill a complimentary bottle of HGH, after which Hill reportedly said he was pleased with the effects and bought two additional kits. Radomski supplied investigators with a photocopy of a cancelled check for $3,200, along with Hill's address and telephone number from his personal address book. Hill denied using the HGH, telling investigators that he had purchased it only once, never used performance-enhancing substances, and still possessed the drugs until discovering them during a 2007 move. He also declined to identify other players, saying his lawyer had warned him that doing so could damage his career.
The allegations intensified on December 20, 2007, when Hill was named in the unsealed affidavit of former major-league pitcher and alleged steroid distributor Jason Grimsley, who had been Hill's teammate on the 2000 New York Yankees. In February 2008, however, Hill issued a joint statement with Matt Herges through the Colorado Rockies and admitted that he had used steroids. The episode became part of the broader collapse of baseball's denials during the Mitchell era: Hill was not portrayed as a central distributor or architect of a doping network, but his alleged HGH purchase, the documentary evidence cited by Radomski, Grimsley's affidavit, and his later admission placed a successful major-league veteran inside the sport's clandestine performance-enhancement culture.
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