Sammy Sosa is, by most accounts, a standup guy. The millions who admire him are likely to forgive a corked bat -- a guy that powerful doesn't need any help. Major League baseball confiscated Sosa's ...

In this video, we dive into the history of cheating in baseball, from sign stealing to corked bats and doctored balls. We ...

My 1930 model "Bill Doak" baseball glove hangs prominently in our family room as a reminder of other days when I ventured on dusty fields of American Legion baseball. One year the House of David came ...

One of Pete Rose’s old lackeys -- Tommy Gioiosa-- told the world many years ago that Rose corked his bats. Based on everything we knew about the guy at the time: that he was a risk-taker, a ...

rodbac and I were discussing this in the NFL thread, but in the interest of preventing a derail, I'm starting it up here.<BR><BR>The question: does corking a bat let a player hit the ball farther? For ...

Remember how Sammy Sosa ditched his Cubs' teammates in the regular-season finale a year ago? There were about 10 or 11 players in the clubhouse when he left, and it was really strange, [Mark] Prior ...

Mickey Mantle’s family issued a statement on Monday to defend the former New York Yankees slugger against an allegation that the Hall of Famer used a corked bat when he played. Two weeks ago, Grey ...

Hours after the Chicago Cubs slugger was suspended for eight games for using a corked bat earlier in the week, the minor league team gave away miniature corked bats to the first 1,000 fans through the ...

Mickey Mantle might have been accused of doing a lot of things during his career, but cheating wasn't one of them. And the Mantle family wants to keep it that way. Days after Grey Flannel Auctions ...

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