Topic: Cooperstown
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MLB, players take lead on drug testing. Will NFL players follow?
Major League Baseball announced an agreement with the players' union to start in-season random drug testing, including for human growth hormone. NFL players have delayed implementation of a 2011 agreement.
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Baseball Hall of Famers happy no one elected this year
A trio of baseball greats who are members of the Hall of Fame expressed their support of baseball writers keeping the likes of Roger Clemens, Barry Bonds, and Sammy Sosa out of the Hall.
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Baseball Hall of Fame: Judgement day for Bonds, Clemens, and Sosa
With the cloud of steroids shrouding many candidacies, baseball writers may fail for only the second time in more than four decades to elect anyone to the Hall.
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Fenway Park's 100th anniversary team: Where do you put Ted Willams?
Fenway Park: Who are the best Red Sox players of the past 100 years? The Monitor goes outside the box to name its lineup.
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'A League of Their Own': Women who inspired the movie will play again
A League of Their Own: About 50 women from the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League will reunite and play in Syracuse, N.Y. Saturday. Will "League of Their Own" actors Tom Hanks, Geena Davis, Madonna, and Rosie O'Donnell make an appearance?
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Baseball Hall of Famer Gary Carter remembered for smile, love of game (+video)
Gary Carter, who backstopped the New York Mets to a World Series championship in 1986, passed away Thursday. Former managers, teammates, and young players remembered his passion.
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Albert Pujols swings for the fences – and for the ages
St. Louis Cardinals slugger Albert Pujols tied the records of Reggie Jackson and Babe Ruth in hitting three home runs in a single World Series game. He matched or broke other records too.
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Is this the year - at last - for the New York Yankees?
It's been nine years since the Yankees' last World Series title – an eternity for New York. But the Yanks are well positioned to make amends, starting Wednesday against the Minnesota Twins.
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American voices: Resilience runs deep in a somber time
On a journey from Plymouth Rock to the Grand Canyon, we find an America that is neither as divided as talk-show histrionics would suggest, nor as sullen as a flagging economy says we should be. We find a country that is struggling, yes, but is also pragmatic and still harbors a little idealism.
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A Brazilian's shrine to bromeliads may one day save the plants
Elton Leme, a high court justice, has found more species than anyone alive – in his free time.
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Living on the Black
John Feinstein details the physical and cerebral challenges of two top-flight pitchers.
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In The Monsters of Templeton,' Cooperstown run amok
A lively debut novel borrows from James Fenimore Cooper and the Loch Ness monster to create myths of its own.
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Cooperstown run amok
A lively debut novel borrow from James Fenimore Cooper and the Loch Ness monster to create myths of its own.
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