Articles related to "Steroid Era"

Baseball has enjoyed a share of ups and downs in its history, from the Cincinatti Red Stocking and the Golden Age of Babe Ruth to Ted Williams in the 1940s and steroids.

In one of the best baseball books in recent memory, Leigh Montville thoroughly reports on the life of arguably the greatest hitter ever, Ted Williams.

Insight can be gained when reading books written in baseball's "steroids era" a second time. A two-part series begins with a look at Tim McCarver's "The Perfect Season."

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 ever-widening steroids scandal in Major League Baseball threatens to do irreparable harm to the sport. Baseball faces huge challenges in the steroids era.

Five players have an opportunity to reach 500 home runs this season.

Cheating in sports is as old as sports, but using performance-enhancing drugs like steroids can tragically up the ante.

Though 50 home runs is still a magical number, much of its luster has been rubbed off with the cloud of performance-enhancing drugs.

A former track star offers a novel with unique insights into the over-the edge mind and body experiences of exhaustive training and the peak experience of the race.

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.

The Toronto Blue Jays have fired general manager J.P. Ricciardi after eight eventful years of repeated failure.

Forget the latest episode of "CSI-Tampa" starring A-Rod, Bud Selig; Major League Baseball has much worse problems that need immediate attention!

Here are the top two players at each position in the National League.

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.

In the days before Babe Ruth, home runs were less common than smart decisions by the Bush administration.

Barry Bonds hit his 748th career homerun off former teammate Tim Wakefield of the Boston Red Sox. The Sox swept the Fenway-based three game series, back on track.

Perhaps the time has finally come for three players who dominated at their respective positions in the 1970s and 1980s: Goose Gossage, Andre Dawson and Jim Rice.