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...issue of steroid use in baseball has dominated off-the-field headlines for the past several years and particularly in recent weeks, following major league commissioner Allan H. “Bud” Selig’s announcement of an extensive investigation into steroid...
...care about as much as Congress and the media does,” Crasnick said. “Find me one person who says, ‘I’m not going to buy tickets to the game because I’m sick of the steroid issue...
Each year brings its familiar rites and beloved rituals--like the end of spring training and the first pitch of the new BASEBALL season, which begins next week. Back in 1937, however, there was one difference: no steroid scandals...
BARRY BONDS needs only seven more home runs to surpass Babe Ruth's career total of 714. But this season the San Francisco Giant will bat to some boos, since a new book detailing the surly slugger's alleged steroid abuse is scheduled to hit stores in time for opening day. In Game of Shadows, two San Francisco Chronicle reporters write that Bonds, 41, first tried performance-enhancing drugs in 1998 out of jealousy toward heavier hitters Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa. Bonds has denied knowingly using steroids, and his lawyer questions the book's credibility. But baseball commissioner...
...even look at [the book],? he told a group of reporters gathered around his spring training locker in Scottsdale, Arizona. ?For what? I won?t even look at it.? Bonds then walked away, treating the press, and the public, with the same flippancy he?s displayed since the first steroid allegation emerged. But he won?t walk away from the game, Hank Aaron?s 755 career home runs in reach (Bonds has 708 entering this season). After all, if there?s anything we?ve learned over the last two years, it?s that Barry Bonds just smirks at what...