New Hall of Famers Lament Baseball Home-Run Craze
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Baseball's newest Hall of Famers, Wade  Boggs and Ryne Sandberg, lamented on Wednesday the current  domination of the home run in the sport and the controversy  over suspected use of muscle-building steroids by some of the  game's top sluggers.
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There's a method to spotting tomorrow's home runs.
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Barry Bonds agreed Tuesday to provide the Hall of Fame with an artifact when he breaks Hank Aaron's record with his 756th home run. Bonds met with Hall of Fame vice president Jeff Idelson for about 40 minutes to discuss what the San Francisco slugger might donate to Cooperstown.
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Few situations in baseball are as awkward as the legendary player whose skills have diminished greatly in the twilight of his career. Double the awkward quotient when he has spent his entire career in one city, and triple it when he is on the verge of a career-defining milestone.
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On a team packed with veterans, three relative newcomers in the bottom three spots of the lineup brought the Yankee Stadium crowd to its feet on Saturday.
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Here he is, ladies and gentlemen, Barry Bonds -- No. 25 in your program, No. 2 on the all-time home run list, and a Big Zero in the hearts of those who love baseball and its most cherished records.
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SEATTLE -- One day after breaking the record for hits in a season, Ichiro Suzuki received a few congratulatory souvenirs Saturday from representatives of the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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Barry Bonds is 742 homers ahead of Dustin Pedroia on the all-time list, but the diminutive Red Sox rookie can make a claim that the would-be home run king can't: He's homered at Fenway Park.
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If Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds never play baseball again, they could be on the Hall of Fame ballot in 2013 and would learn together how much their off-the-field issues affected their legacies.
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The ball Barry Bonds hit for his record-breaking 756th home run will be branded with an asterisk and sent to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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Baseball&#39;s 700 Club became a trinity of revered sluggers Friday night when Barry Bonds hit an opposite-field home run through a light breeze, a swirl of steroid rumors and the thunderous cheers of an adoring home crowd.
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So Barry Bonds will hobble toward the home run record, heading down a tarnished path toward a mark Major League Baseball and many fans prefer he never reach.
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It&#39;s time the celebrate the geriatric set once again, a couple of baseball&#39;s 40-plus guys who are raising the bar for players over the age of 35 in a way that hasn&#39;t been done before.
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Wade Boggs, a five-time American League batting champion, and Darryl Strawberry, an eight-time All-Star, are among 12 players who will appear on the Hall of Fame ballot for the first time.
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According to a recent New York Times/CBS News poll, a third of Americans want Barry Bonds to break the career record for home runs and almost as many want him to fail.
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One by one, the St. Louis Cardinals have honored their departed World Series players and then gotten beat by them.
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RALEIGH, North Carolina  - A blood-stained sock  worn by Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling during the World  Series last year has entered baseball's Hall of Fame.