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The MLB has experienced its fair share of public scandals over the years, some of which involved more than one player — and in some cases, an entire team. After years of speculation, The ...
Baseball has had its share of problems with substance abuse from the inception. Prior to the 1970s, there were countless individual problems with alcohol abuse, but as alcohol was a legal substance during most of that time (except for the Prohibition era), alcohol was typically seen as a character weakness on the part of individuals. Public ...
1957 Major League Baseball All-Star Game; 1984 Braves–Padres bean brawl; 1994 Cleveland Indians corked bat incident; 1998 Major League Baseball home run record chase; 1999 Major League Umpires Association mass resignation; 2001 Major League Baseball contraction plan; 2002 Major League Baseball All-Star Game; 2011–12 Los Angeles Dodgers ...
Biogenesis baseball scandal (2013) – more than a dozen MLB players were found to have received PEDs, mainly human growth hormone, from a now-defunct anti-aging clinic in the Miami area. In all, 13 players received suspensions of 50 or more games, with the longest being given to Alex Rodriguez (162 games) and Ryan Braun (65 games). The number ...
Here is a look at the 20 biggest scandals in the history of sports, and while this counts down, they are in no particular order because we're trying to determine which awful scandal is more ...
The Buckeyes coach at the time, Jim Tressel, resigned on May 30, 2011, in the wake of the scandal. It was previously revealed he knew about the tattoo scandal before it came to light and had been ...
Pete Rose, the all-time MLB leader in hits who was banned for life from baseball for gambling on games as a player-manager, applied for reinstatement in the wake of the scandal, arguing that his permanent ban was disproportionately severe compared to the lack of discipline for Astros players. [155]
Jake Mintz and Jordan Shusterman discuss the latest gambling scandal in MLB, the Dodgers-Pirates game from Tuesday night, Rhys Hoskins' return to Philadelphia, Gerrit Cole making a rehab start and ...