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Goose Gets Nod for Cooperstown
Goose Gets
Nod for Cooperstown
Jan 8, 2008 2:45 PM CST

Goose Gets Nod for Cooperstown

Gossage flies solo as Rice, Dawson wait by the phone

(Newser) - Legendary closer Goose Gossage will enter the Baseball Hall of Fame this year by himself, the Hall announced today, making the grade after nine previous appearances on the ballot. The impressively mustachioed Gossage, who toiled for the Yankees, Padres, and seven other franchises, is only the fifth relief pitcher to...

Hall Announcements Loom
Hall Announcements Loom
Jan 8, 2008 10:15 AM CST

Hall Announcements Loom

McGwire, Rice, Gossage hoping to get more votes this year

(Newser) - Hours before baseball's Hall of Fame voting announcements, Mark McGwire can only hope that early polling is inaccurate. It seems the eighth leading home run hitter will receive nowhere near the 75% necessary to be enshrined in Cooperstown, the New York Times reports. The genial redhead's widely presumed steroid use...

A's GM Has Much Younger Team in Sights

With Beane dealing current players for prospects, no one's safe

(Newser) - Oakland general manager Brian Beane is making good on his promise to bring more youth to the A's—and risking some short-term fan alienation—by trading outfielder Nick Swisher to the White Sox for three young prospects. "We're going with the youth movement, baby," A's third baseman Eric...

Ex-Yankee Charged With Manslaughter in DUI Death

Woman killed after Leyritz runs red light

(Newser) - Former New York Yankees catcher Jim Leyritz was charged with DUI manslaughter after an accident early this morning in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., that claimed the life of another driver, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports. Leyritz ran a red light around 3:30am and collided with another vehicle, police said, causing...

Slugger Hopes for Shortened Prison Term

Retroactive cuts in crack sentences may aid Willie Mays Aikens

(Newser) - Now that the US Sentencing Commission has agreed to retroactively reduce prison terms for crack cocaine offenses, one of baseball's record-holders stands to benefit. Willie Mays Aikens, the only player to hit multiple homers in multiple games in the same World Series (playing for Kansas City in 1980), may have...

Luxury Tax Levied on Yanks, BoSox
Luxury Tax Levied on Yanks, BoSox
Dec 26, 2007 6:12 AM CST

Luxury Tax Levied on Yanks, BoSox

Bronx Bombers owe a good chunk of change, but less than last year

(Newser) - The Yankees owe Major League Baseball $24 million of competitive-balance "luxury" tax on contracts that pushed the team's payroll over the $148 million limit, AP reports. The might seem like a lot to shell out for the privilege of paying Roger Clemens to go 6-6, but it's actually less...

Rocket: 'The Answer Is No'
Rocket: 'The Answer Is No'
Dec 23, 2007 9:29 PM CST

Rocket: 'The Answer Is No'

Future Hall of Famer says former trainer's accusations are not true

(Newser) - Roger Clemens shot back against steroid allegations today, posting a video online in which he says,  "I did not use steroids, or human growth hormone and I've never done so." In the less than two minute video, the Rocket refutes information provided in George Mitchell's report by...

Players Won't Testify at Congressional Hearings

Not expected on Jan. 15th, according to new report

(Newser) - A newly released report suggests that the only MLB personnel expected at the Jan.15th congressional hearings will be Bud Selig and Donald Fehr, ESPN reported last night. The 86 players named in Senator Mitchell's investigation are likely to be under no obligation to speak before the committee, and Rep....

Schilling: Take Back Clemens' Cy Youngs

If Rocket doesn't clear his name, he's guilty, pitcher opines

(Newser) - If Roger Clemens doesn’t fight to clear his name, then he’s guilty in Curt Schilling’s book, and his post-1997 stats should be cleared from the record books. “There aren’t many options as a fan other than to believe his career 192 wins and 3 Cy...

Clemens Denies Taking Steroids
Clemens Denies Taking Steroids
Dec 18, 2007 7:34 PM CST

Clemens Denies Taking Steroids

Pitcher responds to accusations in Mitchell Report

(Newser) - Responding to accusations in the Mitchell report, Roger Clemens today denied using steroids, Newsday reports. “I want to state clearly and without qualification: I did not take steroids, human growth hormone or any other banned substances at any time in my baseball career or, in fact, my entire life,...

'Roids Cloud May Cancel Clemens Speech

Texas group no longer eager to hear 'How I Played So Long'

(Newser) - Steroid accusations may cost Roger Clemens the chance to speak at a Texas convention next month, the Houston Chronicle reports. "I don't want to rush to judgment," but the report "casts a dark cloud above him," said the head of a state coaches group that had...

Pettitte Admits Using HGH
Pettitte Admits Using HGH
Dec 15, 2007 5:26 PM CST

Pettitte Admits Using HGH

Yanks pitcher says he used it twice to heal from injury

(Newser) - Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitte, one of the bigger names cited in the Mitchell report on doping in baseball, admitted today that he used human growth hormone, the AP reports. Pettitte says he used HGH twice in 2002 to speed his recovery from an elbow injury. "I accept responsibility for...

A's Deal Their Ace to Arizona
A's Deal Their Ace to Arizona
Dec 14, 2007 10:47 PM CST

A's Deal Their Ace to Arizona

Oakland gets six prospects in return

(Newser) - Athletics GM Billy Beane, never one to shy away from an aggressive deal, today traded his team's top pitcher, Dan Haren, to the Arizona Diamondbacks for a slew of prospects, reports the Chronicle. Beane made the move with an eye on long-term building - apparently not convinced about his club's...

Active Player Proved He Was Clean, Escaped Mitchell Report

Provided evidence he'd disposed of drugs

(Newser) - An unnamed player who was found to have purchased anabolic steroids managed to keep his name out of George Mitchell's scathing 400-page report on drug abuse in baseball, the New York Times reports after interviewing the former senator. Contacted by Mitchell's investigative team, the player and his lawyer provided evidence...

Bush: Drugs 'Sullied' Baseball
Bush: Drugs 'Sullied' Baseball
Dec 14, 2007 12:34 PM CST

Bush: Drugs 'Sullied' Baseball

President says he's confident league will put steroid era in the past

(Newser) - Major League Baseball must take the Mitchell report seriously and put the era of steroids behind it, President Bush said today. The president, a former part-owner of the Texas Rangers, cautioned against a rush to judgment of the 85 players accused of doping in the report. “We can jump...

Baseball Commish: &lsquo;I Will Act&rsquo;
Baseball Commish: ‘I Will Act’
Dec 13, 2007 5:00 PM CST

Baseball Commish: ‘I Will Act’

Selig says he'll implement all of Mitchell's recommendations

(Newser) - Baseball commissioner Bud Selig called the Mitchell Report a “call to action” today, and said he'd execute every recommendation the former senator made in his bombshell appraisal of steroid use. As to punishment for current players named in the report, Selig said Mitchell was right to defer to him—...

Mitchell Report Delivers Bonds, Clemens, Tejada

Ex-senators faults players, management; urges independent tests

(Newser) - George Mitchell’s long-awaited report on steroids in baseball dropped today, and it blamed both players and management for what it said could be the sport's biggest challenge since the 1919 Black Sox scandal. Every club had a player involved; Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens and Miguel Tejada were among inclusions....

Clemens, Pettitte Said to Be Named in Mitchell Report

Source says trainer got steroids for both Yanks

(Newser) - Roger Clemens and Andy Pettitte are among the 50 or so baseball players named in George Mitchell's much-anticipated report on steroids in Major League Baseball, ESPN reports. A Yankees strength trainer told investigators, whose report is due today, that the two pitchers were among players he supplied with steroids, a...

Mitchell Report Will Be Flawed, Insiders Say

Players, others complain of missteps in the investigation

(Newser) - George Mitchell is poised to release his long-awaited report on steroid use in baseball—but many of those interviewed by his investigators have serious doubts it will solve anything, reports ESPN's Howard Bryant. Players, trainers and managers say the 20-month investigation has been hamstrung by tension between owners and the...

Tejada Dealt From O's to Astros
Tejada Dealt From O's to Astros
Dec 12, 2007 1:52 PM CST

Tejada Dealt From O's to Astros

Baltimore gets five players for unhappy former MVP

(Newser) - The Baltimore Orioles traded disenchanted shortstop Miguel Tejada to the Houston Astros today for five players, the Baltimore Sun reports. Unable to change the O’s losing ways and resistant to a third base switch, the former MVP became a prime offseason target by other teams. In return, the Orioles...

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