From my journal this last month: Sammy Sosa was kicked out of a baseball game the other night because it was discovered that he had used a corked bat. He’d hit a ball; the bat broke; and there was the ...

Sammy Sosa is, by most accounts, a standup guy. The millions who admire him are likely to forgive a corked bat -- a guy that powerful doesn't need any help. Major League baseball confiscated Sosa's ...

During his tenure with the Cleveland Indians (now Cleveland Guardians), Albert Belle was one of the premier players in baseball. In his eight Major League years with Cleveland, the left fielder hit ...

The bat of Houston Astros outfielder Taylor Trammell was confiscated by umpires Thursday night after the New York Yankees questioned if it was legal due to the discoloration around the label at the ...

Jose Canseco is now accusing Mark McGwire of corking a bat before every MLB game he played. Don’t expect a Bash Brothers reunion involving Jose Canseco and Mark McGwire anytime soon. In the late 1980s ...

Mickey Mantle might have been accused of doing a lot of things during his career, but cheating wasn't one of them. And the Mantle family wants to keep it that way. Days after Grey Flannel Auctions ...

Forget about buying the corked bat allegedly used by Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle that was being auctioned; Grey Flannel Auctions has removed it from the block. In fact, all mention of the bat has been ...

With one mighty swing, Sammy Sosa shattered his bat and, quite possibly, his reputation. Sosa has been baseball's quintessential power hitter the last five seasons, a lovable slugger with an ...

The issue of juiced baseballs surfaces every couple years during the month of April due to a high rate of home runs hit. Ed Wolfstein / Icon SMI 756 / Ed Wolfstein / Icon SMI / Newscom Cheating in ...

rodbac and I were discussing this in the NFL thread, but in the interest of preventing a derail, I'm starting it up here.<BR><BR>The question: does corking a bat let a player hit the ball farther? For ...

BOSTON — Birthday No. 70 is coming up on Nov. 25. By then, Bucky Dent hopes to be fully recovered from back surgery and golfing with one of his favorite teammates from the Yankees’ 1977 championship ...