Thomas T. Roberts Is Dead at 84; His Ruling Angered Baseball Owners
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Mr. Roberts was a prominent arbitrator best known for his ruling that major league baseball owners had improperly colluded to prevent free-agent players from obtaining richer contracts.
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The former Texas Rangers owner says steroids have 'sullied' baseball.
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1920 &#151; Shortstop Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians was hit in the head with pitch in the fifth inning by New York's Carl Mays. Chapman suffered a fractured skull and died the next day. It is the only field fatality in major league history.
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The U.S. congressional chairman who  pressured Major League Baseball in 2005 to crack down on  steroid use chided pro athletes for failing to do more to steer  children away from the performance-enhancing drugs.
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Hall of Fame pitcher Jim Palmer was awarded $890,000 by a Palm Beach (Fla.) County jury after Palmer sued an ophthalmologist for damaging his vision.
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He's 74 years old now and he's got more stories than just about anybody. There was the time he struck out Ted Williams in the All-Star Game. Then there was the time he had to separate Tom Heinsohn from Wilt Chamberlain during a heated exchange in an NBA game.
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A report chronicling widespread steroid  use in U.S. Major League Baseball has saddened longtime fans  but left them hopeful firm action will be taken now that the  scale of the problem is out in the open.
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The Christian Science Monitor - A backlash among voters this November against an unpopular Supreme Court decision on eminent domain could dramatically curtail the ability of officials to manage growth and development in parts of the western United States.
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An Arizona cryonics facility must show a document to the nephews of the late Ted Williams that could prove the baseball Hall of Famer wanted to be frozen after his death, a judge has ruled.
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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, its owner said Wednesday.
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Rolland Mays Stiles, the oldest living former Major League Baseball player, died on Sunday at the age of 100 in a nursing home in St Louis, the Post-Dispatch newspaper reported on Monday.
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Ready for "The Curse of the Mick?" The family of late Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle expressed its anger Friday at a decision to temporarily rename the Yankee slugger's eponymous restaurant &#151; and even worse, to call the place "Ted Williams," after the Red Sox great &#151; following Boston's victory over the Bronx Bombers.
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The slugger&#39;s testimony on steroid use raises sharp questions about integrity of baseball and all pro sports. By Mark Sappenfield | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.
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Toxicology results show former major leaguer Jim Leyritz's blood-alcohol levels were nearly twice the legal limit the day he was involved in a fatal crash in December.
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Ken Burkhart, a former big league pitcher and umpire who made one of the most disputed calls in World Series history, has died.
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There is no resting place for Ted Williams. A legend on America's ballfields, Williams was brought here upon his death nearly five years ago, and while some look to the day he can be brought back to life, there is no headstone, no grieving place, no serene patch of greenery where family, friends, or fans can spend ...
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Washington, D.C., Mayor Anthony Williams on Wednesday said the deal to bring baseball back to the U.S. capital was close to dead after the city council changed the plan to require private financing, a move Major League Baseball called unacceptable.