Still glowing over his election to the Hall of Fame, Barry Larkin, was asked about next year’s sure-to-be-controversial vote: the first appearances of Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, and Sammy Sosa on the Cooperstown ballot.
“All I know is playing and competing against some of these guys, they’re the best — period,” he said.
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February 1, 2012 | Posted in
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The number of drug tests conducted by Major League Baseball rose 3 percent in the past year when Colorado Rockies catcher Eliezer Alfonzo was the only big leaguer suspended for use of a performance enhancing substance.
Alfonzo was banned for 100 games and there was just one positive for PEDs among 3,868 tests that [...]
January 6, 2012 | Posted in
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Redding’s Jason Stevenson will get a first crack at ex-major leaguer Jose Canseco and the Yuma Scorpions when the Chico Outlaws independent league baseball team begins a 14-game, three-venue series with the Scorpions at 7 p.m. at Tiger field in Redding.
The first five games are at Tiger field, the second quintet is [...]
October 11, 2011 | Posted in
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The aborted Roger Clemens trial has shown that federal prosecutors still care deeply about steroids, and lying about their use to Congress.
Clemens’ shredded reputation is in limbo after mistrial in the perjury case against one of baseball’s all-time greats.
From Miamiherald.com:
Charged with lying to Congress about performance enhancing drugs, Clemens joined otherwise surefire Hall of Famers [...]
October 3, 2011 | Posted in
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Suspension could await baseball star, Alex Rodriguez, in the wake of his admission about use of steroids, according to Baseball commissioner Bud Selig.
Selig said to USA Today, “It was against the law, so I would have to think about that,” Selig told the newspaper. “It’s very hard. I’ve got to think about all [...]
September 6, 2011 | Posted in
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A faster and more efficient method to detect the presence of illegal anabolic steroids in urine has been reported by researchers in Indiana and China.
The new method that involves no time-consuming sample preparation and takes only a few seconds will be described in Analytical Chemistry.
From Sciencedaily.com:
The study notes that use of banned substances by [...]
August 30, 2011 | Posted in
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Charlie Sheen has for the first time told Sports Illustrated that he tried anabolic steroids, while he was getting fit to play his now-famous role of Ricky “Wild Thing” Vaughn in the cult baseball flick.
Sheen admitted he used performance enhancing drugs while filming the 1989 hit Major League.
From Okmagazine.com:
“[L]et’s just say that I was enhancing [...]
July 13, 2011 | Posted in
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U.S. prosecutors recently moved for dismissing charges against two of the four FBI employees accused of lying about use of performance enhancing drugs, including steroids and human growth hormones.
The U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Ronald Machen filed for dismissing the false statement charges against FBI agents Matthew and Katia Litton but [...]
June 18, 2011 | Posted in
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Known in the baseball circles as a man who swings ferociously and built like a mountain, Jim Thome recently went past Rafael Palmeiro on the career list with his 585 career home run.
Thome may have lost the charm at the age of 40 but doesn’t seem to have lost the aspiration for climbing the [...]
October 23, 2010 | Posted in
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The only man recognized by baseball fans as the true home run king, Henry Aaron, recently said that there is absolutely no place for cheaters in baseball and Hall of Fame.
The legendary player wants the wants the list of 104 players who tested positive in baseball’s confidential drug tests in 2003 to be [...]
October 9, 2010 | Posted in
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