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Juicy Debate: Should Steroids Keep Players From Hall?

AP | JOSEPH WHITE | Posted 04.12.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Steroid use shouldn't keep baseball's best sluggers and pitchers out of the Hall of Fame, the head of the players' union said Wednesday....

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Is That All There Is? Rugged Indvidualism

Dimitri Hamlin | Posted 05.14.2012

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Dimitri Hamlin

It's a good thing that, when push comes to shove, we're really not rugged individualists. I'm thinking that it's almost time for us to accept who we are.

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Beloved Cub Gets Hall Call

AP | BEN WALKER | Posted 02.04.2012

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DALLAS — Ron Santo always kept rooting for the causes dearest to him – for his Chicago Cubs to win the World Series, for doctors to find a...

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2011 Baseball Hall Of Fame Inductions

AP | By JOHN KEKIS | Posted 09.23.2011

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COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. -- Roberto Alomar stared at the adoring crowd and was nearly rendered speechless, the tawdry episode of his stellar career long sinc...

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A New Generation of Farmers

Leah Mayor | Posted 07.11.2011

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Leah Mayor

At age 39, Kylie Spooner put her Ivy League education to unexpected use. She moved into the farmhouse where her father, Dean Spooner, was raised.

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She Loved Baseball: The Effa Manley Story by Audrey Vernick

Holly Cara Price | Posted 05.31.2011

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Holly Cara Price

Whether or not the weather in the New York area tells us otherwise as we look into the maw of yet another possible nor'easter, today marks the officia...

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Top 5 Sports Stories

Len Berman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Len Berman

In light on A-Rod's 600th home run, the conversation turns to the 3 tainted members of the "600 home run club." How many will make it to the Cooperstown?

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Newest Hall-of-Famer: Jon Miller

Ken Levine | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ken Levine

Baseball announcing is a lost art. Very few today are master storytellers. Very few really bring the game "alive." Thank God for Jon Miller.

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The Cooperstown Shooting: Move On, Folks -- Nothing to See Here

Andrew Reinbach | Posted 05.25.2011

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Andrew Reinbach

That is mainly a case of people looking for easy answers. What we have here amounts to a tale of teenaged angst, writ large.

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Andre Dawson: Expo, Not Cub, In Hall Of Fame

Posted 05.25.2011

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Despite his own preference to represent the Cubs, Andre "The Hawk" Dawson will be wearing a Montreal Expos cap in the Hall of Fame. He reportedly tex...

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Abusing Statistics to Justify Dawson's Hall of Fame Induction

Eric Trager | Posted 05.25.2011

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Eric Trager

In the aftermath of Andre Dawson's somewhat surprising induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame, baseball writers are struggling to demonstrate the Hawk's greatness.

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McGwire Used Steroids: Are You Surprised?

Roger I. Abrams | Posted 05.25.2011

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Roger I. Abrams

McGwire's admission will be characterized by some as a tragedy and by others as justice served. The far more difficult issue is whether the steroids really did help him reach the fences.

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How To Solve The Steroids/Hall Of Fame Dilemma

Av Sinensky | Posted 05.25.2011

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Av Sinensky

Here is the answer: let them in. And not just the steroid guys. Rose, Shoeless Joe, all of them. Put them all in the Hall of Fame. Except, not really. Here's what I propose: a Hall of Fame purgatory.

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Where Have All the Steroids Gone?

Roger I. Abrams | Posted 05.25.2011

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Roger I. Abrams

It has been months now since we have heard the word "steroids" uttered in the sporting news about the allegedly "cheating" baseball players.

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Keith Olbermann Vacations In Cooperstown, Blogs About Baseball

Huffington Post | Peter Drivas | Posted 05.25.2011

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Keith Olbermann has been away from the anchor's desk at "Countdown," and his recent blog posts give a clue where he's been (at least for the past few ...

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