on January 12th, 2010 by 30-Year Old Cardboard
1992 Stadium Club Greg Maddux
If I held a contest for the worst image used on a baseball card, this one would get strong consideration as one of the finalists!!!
What a terrible picture. I don’t know if the photographer caught Maddux at an off millisecond or if Maddux just arrived at the park after a late-night [...]
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on January 12th, 2010 by chrisolds
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on January 12th, 2010 by rosschrisman2003
After Mark McGwire announced yesterday that he used steroids for 10 years including when he broke Roger Maris’s single season home run record back in 1998, I couldn’t help but think about this little piece of memorabilia I have sitting in a dark corner. This Sammy Sosa / Mark McGwire dual gold card booklet commemorating [...]
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on January 12th, 2010 by Chris Harris
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on January 12th, 2010 by shanediaz82
Everyone knows Don Larsen as the only pitcher in history to throw a perfect game (or even a no-hitter for that matter) during the World Series. Overall he was a mediocre journeyman pitcher, so his name is forever associated with the gem he threw on O…
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on January 12th, 2010 by White Sox Cards
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on January 12th, 2010 by T.S.
As you might expect, I don’t see a lot of point in adding my analysis
of the Mark McGwire steroid confession. Everybody who might conceivably be
heard from either has been or will be soon enough, all the way from Bobby Knight to
the commissioner himself and points in between.
I am, however, interested in the broader questions raised by the “news,”
which of course isn’t really news at all. It’s just official now.
One of the FBI agents, now retired, who was involved in a 1989-93 steroid
probe did provide an interesting angle in noting that McGwire’s usage was discovered
at that time, and that information was subsequently passed along to Major League Baseball.
Like the admission itself, that’s not particularly surprising, but it
is worthy of note to remind yourself that when baseball was seemingly resurrecting
itself in that bizarrely glorious 1998 season, MLB officials knew – or at the very
least should have known – that their historic home run blizzard was artificially enhanced.
I know all the arguments about how MLB was pushing for testing and the
players union was resisting, but none of that alters the reality that after shooting
itself in the foot with a disastrous truncated season and canceled World Series in
1994, the game was revived on an illusion. And the checks were cashed. Lots of them.
But to me, the steroid-enhanced 800-pound elephant in the room is the
likely reality that players themselves probably wouldn’t give a hoot about using such
things except that we – fans, media, Congress and even an occasional President – frantically
insist that they must.
Without debating the nuance of whether somebody started using to assist
a return from an injury or merely to add muscle and thus maybe some long-ball ooomph
to his resume, I can’t shake the suspicion that athletes making millions of dollars
would seek any remote edge available to keep the paychecks rolling in.
Call me cynical, but I think the primary reason you hear the right things
from players about this topic is because the pressures of political correctness force
them to be outraged, or at least to give that impression. I think the outrage is as
phony as the home run totals from (insert your favored span of years here).
And before anyone suggests I am minimizing the impact of “cheating,”
I would say instead that we ought to be truly vigilant about how “cheating” is defined
in a professional sport where so many billions of dollars are at stake.
To do any less would just be incredibly naive, and we already know where
that got us (think Summer of ’98).
(McGwire/Sosa artwork courtesy of www.goodsportsart.com)
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on January 12th, 2010 by Tracy Hackler
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on January 12th, 2010 by Dinged Corners
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on January 12th, 2010 by zman40
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on January 12th, 2010 by Tom
Custom Autograph cardRussell Frederick HemanPitcherBats: Right , Throws: RightHeight: 6′ 4″ , Weight: 200 lb.Born: February 10, 1933 in Olive, CAPurchased by the Los Angeles Angels from the Cleveland Indians on June 5, 1961.Later traded by the Los Ange…
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on January 12th, 2010 by Dan
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on January 12th, 2010 by JRJ
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on January 12th, 2010 by chemgod
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With the admission of McGwire to taking steroids for a decade we can now officially scratch his name off the HOF list. What’s funny is no one was shocked with this one. It was the equivalent of Pete Rose betting on baseball. You knew he did it, confirmation was nice but [...]
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on January 12th, 2010 by Scott
The youngest player to reach 500 career home runs will have their 500th home run ball put up for auction this year. In a post at Tuff Stuff it’s said that the fan who caught the ball hit by A-Rod has consigned it to SCP Auctions for their internet auction closing on February 4th.
This ball [...]
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on January 12th, 2010 by deal
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