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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hours after the Chicago Cubs slugger was suspended for eight games for using a corked bat earlier in the week, the minor league team gave away miniature corked bats to the first 1,000 fans through the ...

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 ...

Citing Major League Baseball’s long history of corked bats, spitballs and steroids, the Second Circuit on Monday appeared unlikely to revive a class action that says a coverup of the 2017 electronic ...

Remember how Sammy Sosa ditched his Cubs' teammates in the regular-season finale a year ago? There were about 10 or 11 players in the clubhouse when he left, and it was really strange, [Mark] Prior ...

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 ...

The boost a slugger gets from a corked bat is highly overrated. In fact, experts on the physics of baseball say such bats reduce a hitter's power. ``You have a slightly lighter bat and you're going to ...

CHICAGO – This week’s edition of “Throwback Thursday” featured a pair of moments that happened on July 15th at the White Sox home ballpark. We same home ballpark because it had two different names for ...