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(+) Read MoreSaving the National Pastime’s Image: Major League Baseball Needs Some Major Crisis Management
May 15, 2009
Megan LeitchAmericans love a scandal. We hawk our twitter accounts, watch Entertainment Tonight and subscribe to every trashy magazine to dive into every detail about the latest celebrity gossip. The avalanche of major league baseball scandals recently earned not just sports-section coverage -but front-page news. One by one, syringe by syringe, the greatest players of our generation have crashed and burned. Baseball is now associated as the sport of cheaters, where fans must separate records with an asterisk, or wonder whose guilty or not. Of the 15 players who hit the most home runs from 1993 through 2004, 10 are said to be connected to performance-enhancing drugs by positive tests, the Mitchell Report or news reports. Manny Ramirez just earned that 10th spot.
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