BOSTON.- The Web site Boston.com reports that the details from an upcoming book on Alex Rodriguez by Sports Illustrated's Selena Roberts, states that Major League Baseball’s highest paid player “may have started taking steroids as early as high school and is suspected of continuing his use of performance-enhancing drugs with the New York Yankees.”

The report, based on the New York Daily News article published today, reads: "A-Rod book bombshell," and sates that the "Slugger may have taken HGH while playing for the Yankees" and, "Hints he took steroids as early as high school days."

“The report indicates that a high school teammate of Rodriguez's told Roberts that A-Rod took steroids before being drafted as a No. 1 pick and that his high school coach knew it -- an allegation the coach, Rich Hoffman, denied,” adds the report on the alleged new substance-abuse scandal.

It said the book, “also indicates that two anonymous Yankees said they believed Rodriguez was using banned substances based on visual side effects, which reportedly led to Rodriguez gaining an unflattering nickname that referenced an increased pectoral size comparable to a woman's chest.”

Boston.com adds the report, “also notes that a clubhouse staffer suggested management had a suspicion that the third baseman may have been juicing,” the term referring to the use of a performance-enhancing substance.