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Sports Central December 7, 2004 Jeff Kallman |
Baseball's Oldest Profession, Revisited Anyone who thinks cheating in baseball began in earnest with the Fabulous BALCO Boys is in dire need of a history lesson. Class is now in session.  |
Sports Central August 17, 2005 Josh Frank |
Baseball's Numbers Game: One For the Record In the midst of the latest steroid scandals, baseball has found its record books being threatened. But this isn't the first time those records have come under assault by a changing game.  |
Sports Central March 26, 2005 Greg Wyshynski |
Sports Media's Steroid Hypocrisy Today's sports pundits have more in common with Major League Baseball's braintrust than they'd like to admit -- they all placed their heads in the sand just deep enough to play blind to the sport's steroid subculture while still being able to hear the cash register ring.  |
Popular Mechanics April 2003 Jim Kaat |
The Mechanics Of Baseball Baseball has evolved in favor of the hitter. Here are nine factors that have changed the game.  |
Reason June 2005 Aaron Steinberg |
In Defense of Steroids Jose Canseco's surprisingly sensible case for juice: A book review of Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big, by Jose Canseco.  |
Sports Central September 22, 2008 Jeff Kallman |
"Fort Apache, Yankee Stadium" All this season's eulogizing the big ball orchard in the Bronx has been gushy, mushy, sentimental, and mostly on the mark.  |
Sports Central November 7, 2005 Jeff Kallman |
Credible Evidence and a Fresh Beer A post season analysis of major league baseball.  |
AskMen.com Ross Bonander |
5 Things You Didn't Know: MLB With the 2008 season well underway, let's take a look through the complicated history of the league and pro baseball to present five things you didn't know about Major League Baseball.  |
Sports Illustrated May 14, 2002 Phil Taylor |
Unfulfilled yet understandable Retiring slugger Jose Canseco didn't live up to his potential, but he had fun...  |
Sports Central August 31, 2005 Diane M. Grassi |
Unaccountability Leaves Cloud Over MLB As long as positive drug test results can be dismissed by players, doubted in the headlines, and penalties to players so meager, Major League Baseball will continue to have a public relations cloud over its head.  |
Sports Central January 27, 2009 Jeff Kallman |
Cooperstown Calling Commentary about recent Hall of Fame selections.  |
Sports Central February 17, 2005 Daniel Collins |
Why Baseball Should Let the Players Cheat Former Arizona Cardinals head coach and current Redskins coordinator Joe Bugle once coined the phrase, "if you're not cheating, you're not trying." If that's the case, you have to give the bulk of Major League Baseball players an "A" for effort.  |
Sports Central July 3, 2014 Jeff Kallman |
Jim Brosnan, RIP: Inside Looking Out A retrospective view of relief pitcher Jim Brosnan and his book, The Long Season.  |
Sports Central March 22, 2005 Andre Watson |
McGwire Loses in Court of Public Opinion For a person who seemed larger-than-life while he was on the baseball diamond, Mark McGwire's poor performance at the congressional hearing on steroid use in baseball will have a lasting effect on his legacy.  |
Salon.com March 28, 2002 Allen Barra |
What Barry Bonds did wrong He's the best player in baseball, but hitting 73 home runs at age 37 isn't just unnatural, it might be ruining the game...  |
Sports Illustrated March 19, 2002 Tom Verducci |
Locker Room Confidential A former big leaguer and author of the groundbreaking Ball Four explains what the Ruben Rivera incident was really about...  |
Sports Central April 16, 2005 Greg Wyshynski |
Survey Says: Steroids Don't Matter The Associated Press and AOL Sports polled 1,001 adults about their thoughts on professional baseball today. The results are interesting, if not startling.  |
Reason January 2003 Dayn Perry |
Pumped-Up Hysteria Forget the hype. Steroids aren't wrecking professional baseball.  |
Sports Central February 25, 2005 Kevin Ferra |
Questions, Answers, and More Confusion Everyone has been talking about it -- the steroid issue. Yet, believe it or not, baseball will survive with or without the steroids, and any allegations Jose Canseco has made.  |
Sports Illustrated November 13, 2001 Tom Verducci |
Scorecard Mark McGwire leaves the game the way he played it -- with class...  |
Sports Central March 18, 2007 Greg Wyshynski |
Baseball's Unending Controversies Controversies regarding Pete Rose and aluminum bats have bubbled back up to the surface this week.  |
Salon.com June 13, 2001 Allen Barra |
By George, he's back Steinbrenner lashes out at the Yankees, just like old times. And this time, he's actually got a point...  |
Sports Central February 21, 2014 Jeff Kallman |
The Not-So-Great Yankee Double Switch One day after the 1964 World Series ended with the St. Louis Cardinals defeating the New York Yankees, both Series managers were out, and one of them went to work for the team he'd just opposed.  |
Sports Central June 20, 2007 Joe Boesch |
Giambi Shouldn't Be the MLB Scapegoat But he may have opened his mouth too much this time on the issue of steroids.  |
Sports Central January 5, 2004 Jeff Kallman |
2003: Never a Dull Moment "We try every way we can do to kill this game," Sparky Anderson once said of baseball, "but for some reason, nothing nobody does never hurts it." That was then, this is now. Nothing nobody does never hurts it still, but lots of people do continue to embarrass it.  |
AskMen.com Paul Bessire |
Top 10: World Series Teams As the 2007 MLB season comes to an end, WhatIfSports.com ranks all 102 previous World Seres winners to find the true top 10 greatest World Series teams in the history of baseball.  |
Sports Central December 31, 2014 Jeff Kallman |
MLB 2014: The Year in Review Baseball did a lot of blinking during 2014. Not to mention winking, nodding, prodding, clodding, and thrilling.  |
Sports Central December 28, 2015 Jeff Kallman |
MLB 2015: It Got Late Early Out There The author ruminates on this year's baseball games and famous players of years past.  |
Sports Central November 14, 2010 Jeff Kallman |
The Wrong Expansion For Baseball MLB thinks the way to solve baseball's image and primacy problems is to expand the postseason.  |
Salon.com April 26, 2001 Allen Barra |
"61*" Billy Crystal directs two relative unknowns as Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris in maybe the best baseball movie since "Bull Durham"...  |
Sports Central May 20, 2004 Vincent Musco |
Baseball's Steroid Fallout Our nation's pastime faces a steroid epidemic which stands to destroy the credibility of some of baseball's brightest stars.  |
Sports Central August 9, 2005 Eric Poole |
Rafael in Bushworld Rafael Palmeiro is telling the truth when he says he never intentionally took steroids, or at least that's what President Bush thinks -- even though the notion that any professional athlete would ingest or inject something into his body without knowing exactly what is in it strains credulity.  |
Sports Central February 18, 2005 Vince Grzegorek |
A Literary Romp Through Steroids Welcome just the two latest chapters in the ongoing steroid saga that has dominated the offseason of baseball.  |
Sports Central April 5, 2007 Scott Shepherd |
Baseball's Back, and Not a Second Too Late Here's a look at some of the things that make baseball great.  |
Sports Central October 31, 2012 Stephen Kerr |
Defending America's Pastime Now that San Francisco has swept Detroit, and this year's World Series is over, I'll watch some good pro and college football and basketball. But I'm already counting down the days until spring training starts another season. Hurry back, baseball!  |
Sports Central July 13, 2005 William Geoghegan |
Long Live the Long Ball Who needs steroids? Certainly not the players in this year's record-breaking Home Run Derby, the opening sideshow to Major League Baseball's annual All-Star Game.  |
Sports Central July 6, 2012 Jeff Kallman |
D-Train's Derailment, and Others' How strange and sad it is, now and over a lifetime of watching and loving the game, that as often as not the players who are the most fun to watch become the players whose careers derail soon enough after they get their first tastes of success.  |
Sports Central December 15, 2007 Greg Wyshynski |
Lenny Dykstra, From 'Nails' to Nailed If the Mitchell Report teaches us anything, it's that "The Steroid Era" was all encompassing. Pitchers, catchers, fielders. Black, white, Latino. Stars, scrubs, and Ricky Bones.  |
Sports Central June 10, 2006 Greg Wyshynski |
The Steroid Gossip Game It's a difficult gig for anyone paid to promote Major League Baseball's product as a sports journalist, to reconcile one's dedication to morals and standards while celebrating alleged, supposed, and would-be "cheaters."  |
Sports Central June 21, 2012 Jeff Kallman |
Boys Will Be Boys Roger Clemens gets off the hook on a perjury rap because either the House Committee for the Sending of Swell Messages to Kids, the actual prosecution, or the original Mitchell Report bungled its way across the sticky wickets of actual or alleged performance-enhancing substances.  |
Sports Central February 10, 2005 Piet Van Leer |
Should Jose Canseco Be Believed? Yes, we've been here before with Canseco, and odds are if we buy enough books, he'll make other shocking claims in later editions. But should he be ignored?  |
AskMen.com Malcolm MacMillan |
Top 10: Valuable Collector's Items These items from key moments in sporting history are out there, but got shuffled away in the excitement of victory. And someone might just have one of them among his family treasures.  |
Sports Central August 13, 2009 Jeff Kallman |
Big Papi's Big Burden David Ortiz isn't the first baseball player to say he got nailed by a test for actual or alleged performance-enhancing substances.  |
Sports Illustrated August 14, 2001 Stephen Cannella |
Going the Other Way The dead pull hitter is dying out as batters crush the ball to the opposite field...  |
Sports Central January 3, 2014 Jeff Kallman |
MLB 2013: Unrealities Baseball's 2013 included a few hallucinations and several surrealities. Some might have wished some of the hallucinations were real even as others might have wished some of what was real was merely a hallucination.  |
Sports Central December 3, 2006 Greg Wyshynski |
Why McGwire Belongs in Cooperstown There's not a single reason to keep Mark McGwire out of the Baseball Hall of Fame.  |
Sports Illustrated June 25, 2003 Steve Rushin |
Big Man in the Big House Last Friday police came to take what remained of Jose Canseco's freedom, removing him from his current house after a drug test -- mandated by the court as part of his sentence -- turned up positive for steroids.  |
Sports Illustrated May 28, 2002 Tom Verducci |
Baseball's worst-kept secret Now the worst-kept secret is out: Steroids have a firm footing in the game and they do enhance performance...  |
BusinessWeek December 20, 2004 Mark Hyman |
Steroid Scandal? Pass the Peanuts Do fans care half as much as a few politicos and media scolds? They seem a lot more interested in the free-agent mating dance between Red Sox hurler Pedro Martinez and Yankees principal owner George Steinbrenner.  |
Sports Central March 13, 2005 Vince Grzegorek |
Baseball's Coming to Washington And we're not talking about the new Nationals. The steroid story has opened like a ninth-inning rally, and the U.S. House of Representatives has been called in for relief.  |