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“Pete Rose: Hits & Mrs.” has baseball great stepping up to the reality-show plate
Channel Guide MagazineA lot of people view Pete Rose these days with a mixture of anger and pity. Anger that his long-ago sin of betting on baseball games still keeps the sport's all-time hit king out of the Hall of Fame, and pity at the sad caricature they think he's become.... -
Lance Armstrong's legacy
Thursday night's bid for absolution by cyclist Lance Armstrong over his use of performance-enhancing drugs — set to continue Friday as OWN founder and TV high priestess Oprah Winfrey seeks to bless her struggling network with ratings points —...
Tags: Baseball, San Francisco Giants, Oprah Winfrey, Unions, OWN (tv network)
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Jeff Jacobs: Reign Delay - Nobody Gets In Hall This Year, And That's Good
The Hartford CourantIn the 144-year narrative of our national pastime, five men have hit 60 home runs in one season. Henry Aaron never did it. Willie Mays never did it. One did it three times. As his reward, Sammy Sosa received 71 of 569 possible votes (12.5 percent) for...Tags: Baseball, Willie Mays, Don Sutton, ESPN (tv network), Sports
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Hall of Famer Rich 'Goose' Gossage applauds Cooperstown shutout
Rich “Goose” Gossage cut an intimidating figure on the mound with his sinister-looking Fu Manchu mustache and blazing fastball, and at 61, he can still fire a few high, hard ones, as he showed after Wednesday’s Hall of Fame vote, in...
Tags: Baseball, Jose Canseco, Hank Aaron, Tour de France, Sports
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Lance Armstrong, baseball's Hall and drug standards
After all this time, he's not sure if he read Lance Armstrong's book before his kidney was taken out or after, before the cancer spread to his lungs or later, before his doctors said to get his papers in order or not. "I just remember admiring his...
Tags: Baseball, Fred McGriff, National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Tour de France, Sports
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Hall of Famers happy to see Bonds, Clemens denied
NEW YORK (AP) — Nobody was happier about the Hall of Fame shutout than the Hall of Famers themselves. Goose Gossage, Al Kaline, Dennis Eckersley and others are in no rush to open the door to Cooperstown for anyone linked to steroids. Barry...
Tags: Baseball, Babe Ruth, Willie Mays, Mike Schmidt, Tour de France
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Letters: Wing of shame at the Hall of Fame?
Re "Baseball writers throw a shutout at Hall of Fame," Jan. 10 Several of baseball's greats, including slugger Barry Bonds and pitcher Roger Clemens, were denied entry into baseball's Valhalla, presumably because of the steroids scandal. That's OK by...Tags: Baseball, Sports, Barry Bonds
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Pete Rose: Hall of Fame decision is 'kind of sad'
No living players will be inducted into the Hall of Fame this year, a decision that baseball great Pete Rose said is "kind of sad." In an interview with Fox News, Rose lamented the first shutout since 1996. "There's a lot of great players that were on...
Tags: Baseball, Cincinnati Reds, Sports, Barry Bonds, Mark McGwire
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The Hall truth: The change it must make
History, it has been said, is written by the winners. But sometimes, writers write history, and I’m hoping those with Hall of Fame ballots do that today. When the names of the newest inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame are announced, I hope...
Tags: Baseball, Babe Ruth, National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Red Schoendienst, Sports
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Rafael Palmeiro discusses Baseball Hall of Fame voting
The Baltimore SunI had a chance to talk to former Oriole Rafael Palmeiro about Wednesday’s Hall of Fame announcement that the Baseball Writers' Association of America did not vote in anyone for the 2013 induction class. That includes Palmeiro, who was on his third...Tags: Baseball, National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Tom Glavine, Rafael Palmeiro, ESPN (tv network)
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Orioles laud expanded drug testing in baseball
The Baltimore SunMajor League Baseball and the players association have agreed to take the next step toward eradicating performance-enhancing drugs from the game by expanding random blood testing for human growth hormone to during the season and conducting additional...Tags: Baseball, San Francisco Giants, Science and Technology, J.J. Hardy, World Anti-Doping Agency
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They belong in the Hall of Fame
Did Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa and pitcher Roger Clemens miss election to the Baseball Hall of Fame because the writers don't like them rather than their alleged steroids use? The sportswriters and other purists adamantly say the three don't belong in...Tags: Baseball, National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Rafael Palmeiro, College Baseball, Sports
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