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Home runs and strikeouts are exciting. They keep casual fans interested because both are dramatic. They are fun.

Manny Ramirez has the numbers to be in this year's All-Star game. But will he be voted in or will his recent suspension impact his chances?

Barry Bonds is in the starting lineup and every team from the Devil Rays to the Diamondbacks needs to be represented. The All-Star game isn't making much sense these days

The New York Yankees and Philadelphia Phillies kick off the World Series on October 28. It's the latest start in series history. It should be a good matchup for baseball.

Will nothing stop Barry Bonds? Fans, players and managers alike want Bonds out of the game, but commissioner Selig might be too late to stop him from breaking the record

The chief investigator in Major League Baseball's steroid investigation is an active member of the Boston Red Sox Board of Directors. Isn't that a conflict? Uh, Yeah.

The new professional Israel Baseball League begins its season on June 24 with a sprinkling of Jewish former Major League Baseball stars at the helm.

Barry Bonds, Michael Vick, and Tim Donaghy are all giving American sports a black eye. But the NBA will have the worst time recovering from the mess Donaghy created.

Sammy Sosa was just another superstar who was headed to Cooperstown until someone leaked a 2003 anonymous drug testing report which cited a failed test by Sosa.

The New York Yankees are World Series Champions again, but, controversy swirls after a very interesting season.

In the near future, there will be an international baseball tournament, and a short time after its inception, there may be a "foreign" World Champion.

Now that Barry Bonds is the all-time home run leader for Major League Baseball, no one seems to know if the record should count.

The government took a day off from ignoring the problems of the real world with a full day hearing to question officials about performance-enhancing drug use.

April 15, 2007 marked the 60th anniversary of Jackie Robinson's memorable debut in the major leagues.

Jackie Robinson's life after baseball was marked by great efforts and great honors. He and Babe Ruth are the most important ballplayers of all time.

Jose Canseco's 2005 book made some startling allegations about steroid use in baseball. Many of them have been proven to be true.

The 2009 postseason is remembered as the year of blown calls by the umpires. MLB still refuses to expand its current system, which is very limited.

T he Texas Rangers and Sammy Sosa, Nelson Cruz, and Michael Young, The New York Yankees and Don Mattingly, Barry Bonds and the San Francisco Giants, and other MLB News

Inside Profiles and Rankings for each of the five best general managers in Major League Baseball.

Barry Bonds needs but 23 homers to tie Hank Aaron's all-time records- yet the game, the times and his body are all telling him his day is past.

Baseball fans who root for out-of-area teams still don't know where they can get their baseball games on television this year. Will it be cable or satellite?

This week, the Major League Baseball Players Association issued statements expressing fears that owners may again be trying to hold down player pay.

When the American League was founded in 1901 to challenge the National League's monopoly on professional baseball, a fierce rivalry was born that continues to this day.

The Oakland A's Might Consider Moving Out Of Norhern California Talks For New Stadium in Freemont collapse

Alex Rodriguez, arguably today's best player in Major League Baseball, admitted that he took performance enhancing drugs during his tenure with the Texas Rangers.

The First Round Of the Major League Baseball Playoffs Is Too Short And Does Not Determine The Better Team

Major League Baseball could expand in the future now that its major problems have been settled.

Just when you thought things were getting better for Alex Rodriguez they take a turn for the worse.

In the past 50 years, Major League Baseball has added 14 new teams and drastically revised it's structure and standings.

The World Baseball Classic has received a lot of criticism from detractors, but true baseball fans should embrace this international tournament.

Atlanta Braves Manager Bobby Cox broke the Major League record for being ejected when he got tossed against the San Fancisco Giants. Cox now leads an illustrious list.

Instant replay has been introduced into MLB to help umpires make the correct calls, but what are the possible side effects of this new technology?

Attendance has jumped in the 12 years that Major League Baseball introduced regular season play between American and National League teams

April 15th 2007, marked the 60 year anniversary after Robinson's debut in the Major Leagues which was the beginning of an amazing career.

Manny Ramirez was doing so well fitting in with the Dodgers. Now, he will find himself sitting on the pine for quite sometime because of his use of an illegal drug.

Major League Baseball's 21-month-long investigation on the use of performance-enhancing drugs by MLB players refers to 88 different players allegedly involved with PHDs.

The New York Yankees spend the most money and this season they are winning the biggest. It is a system that is good for baseball.

Other professional sports leagues should follow the NHL's lead and let draft picks hone their skills in college.

The National Hockey League made history in 2004-2005 as the first league to cancel an entire season in a labor dispute. The gamble is paying off in hard economic times.

The second World Baseball Classic was declared a success but might see changes in 2013

With so many records shattered and so many tight pennant races that came down to the wire, the 2007 baseball season may have been among the best ever.

Major League Baseball (MLB) broke from tradition for this World Series and assigned veteran umpires with Series experience, hoping to reduce the number of dubious calls.

Bud Selig has said for years that instant replay isn't good for baseball. But with 25 general managers and the public in favor of replay, things may soon change.

Barry Bonds' refusal to turn over mementoes to baseball's Hall of Fame should come as no surprise, as he's only following his own track record.

The recent burst of HGH and steroid links to Major League baseball suggest that the game's performance-enhancing drug problem is as bad as Jose Canseco claimed.

How did anonymous, confidential steroid test results of 104 MLB players end up in the hands of one IRS agent? Well, he stole them.

Charlie Hustle has been banned from baseball for almost twenty years, and has almost no chance of ever being allowed back into the game.

Not long after Sammy Sosa became just the fifth member of the 600 home run club, everybody turned their eyes to the next man up: Ken Griffey, who now needs just 16 more.

MLB Commissioner Bud Selig's threat to suspend Yankee first baseman Jason Giambi is not only hollow -- it's hypocritical, downright stupid and no doubt unconstitutional.

It's ludicrous that the All-Star Game determines home field advantage in the World Series, but if it must be, than so should these rules.