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When Roger Maris broke Babe Ruth's home-run record in 1961, commissioner Ford Frick ruled that because Maris' season was eight games longer than Ruth's had been, the new record deserved an asterisk. Today fans wonder whether the slugging records of recent years will require similar caveats because of charges that top players have used anabolic steroids to help them turn fly balls into moon shots...
...steroids a priority in his State of the Union address, Attorney General John Ashcroft announced the indictments of four men--two executives of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative (BALCO), track coach Remy Korchemny and Greg Anderson, a personal weight trainer whose clients include San Francisco Giants home-run king Barry Bonds--charging that they distributed steroids to top athletes...
...anabolic steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs--the charges stemming, in part, from what Catlin found in the vial. Things heated up further last week when the U.S. Attorney's office in San Francisco released affidavits from people involved in the case declaring that Greg Anderson, personal trainer for home-run king Barry Bonds, had given steroids to Major League Baseball players--though all the defendants have pleaded not guilty to all charges. So far, no athletes have been indicted, but more sneakers are expected to drop...
...exuberant baseball relief pitcher whose phrase "Ya gotta believe!" was the rallying cry of the New York Mets' unlikely last-to-first run for the 1973 National League pennant; of brain cancer; in Nashville. McGraw, who was known for on-field antics such as feigning heart palpitations when home-run balls drifted foul, pitched in the World Series for the Mets and the Philadelphia Phillies. Asked how he would spend his bonus from the 1973 Mets pennant, McGraw replied, "Ninety percent I'll spend on good times, women and Irish whiskey. The other 10 percent I'll probably waste...
...trying to hit those home-run balls,” he said...