Baseball Blog

Knoblauch Talks to House Panel
Chuck Knoblauch gave 90 minutes of closed-door testimony to Congressional staff Friday and told reporters he wanted to do his part to clean up drugs in baseball.

Baseball strikes out (Press & Sun-Bulletin)
Major League Baseball, which fancies itself a bastion of tradition, has decided that this year’s Hall of Fame Game in Cooperstown will be the last. But, hey, that tradition only dated to 1940.

Buying Low: Minor Leaguer Takes Stock of Himself
A reliever in the Cleveland Indians? system set up a Web site through which fans could purchase a piece of his future major league earnings.

‘Most Valuable Player’ shows baseball icon Jackie Robinson’s heroism on and off the field (The Tennessean)
More than 60 years ago, Jackie Robinson stepped up to the plate of a mighty battle. He broke the color barrier of major league baseball as an African-American member of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Knoblauch Will Talk to Committee; Agent Defends Clemens
Chuck Knoblauch has agreed to talk to congressional staff members about steroids in baseball while Roger Clemens continued his campaign Monday to fight steroid allegations.