Tag Archives: Ernie Banks

Racism In Baseball: Real or Imagined

I’m going to get serious for a change today and talk about subject that I find endlessly interesting as well as endlessly frustrating.  Racism is a subject that transcends baseball, but baseball provides a platform where we can perhaps see racism more clearly and get our heads around it by looking at it on a smaller [...]

NYT Reports Sosa Tested Positive for Steroids

According to a report in the New York Times, former Cubs slugger Sammy Sosa tested positive for steroids in 2003.  The testing was done before MLB implemented the current testing system and was done to gauge the need for consistent testing in MLB.  The agreement the league had with the players union was that the results [...]