thebiglead.com - 7/31/2009
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Shockingly, since they did so much thorough, proactive reporting on performance enhancing drugs, the BBWAA may have been duped by a doper. Jose Canesco told ESPN’s Pedro Gomez that baseball had a Hall of Famer who used performance enhancing drugs.
“When you tell me something I ...
Handicapping the Hall of Famer Who Jose Canseco Says Used Steroids
larrybrownsports.com 7/31/2009 — When it comes to the subject of steroids in baseball there isn’t a more credible source than Jose Canseco . The dude was practically the godfather of roids in baseball, the way he tells it. Players, owners, agents, the union — they all ...
Is Canseco Trying To Tell Us Cal Ripken Juiced?
sportsbybrooks.com 7/31/2009 — McGwire , Sosa , Clemens , ARod , Manny , Papi : Can it get any worse?
(If Canseco sez it wasn’t Rickey, then which HOFer is on 2003 steroid list?)
Based on what Jose Canseco said Thursday, probably.
Everyone’s favorite circus ...
G-d and Rickey Henderson
angelswinblog.blogspot.com 7/29/2009 — By David Saltzer - Angelswin.com Columnist If I were setting my lineup for the greatest baseball team of all time, there’s no doubt in my mind who would be leading off: Rickey Henderson. I remember him on the base paths just terrorizing Angels pitchers and making the game bend to his will. ...
Did Rickey Henderson use steroids?
firebrandal.com 7/31/2009 — Now that I have your attention, let me get this out of the way: I have nothing factual to back this up other than some oblique quotes from Jose Canseco and good, old-fashioned deduction.
"Major League Baseball is going to have a big, big problem on their hands when they find out they have a ...
Who Exactly Was Canseco Talking About?
noyoureatowel.net 7/31/2009 — When there's steroids news, there's Jose Canseco quotes. To be fair, although most people thought he was a nut, he's been right about mostly all of the players he's called out as steroids users. So what did he say today? "When you tell me something I didn't already know, I'll be surprised," ...
"Rickey Wants to Play Baseball"
clevelandfrowns.com 7/28/2009 — Rickey Henderson is probably our favorite professional athlete of all time . All Rickey ever wanted to do was help his team win baseball games, and just about everything he ever did reminded us of that. As far as we know, even the worst things that folks say about him can be traced directly his ...
Rickey is Back, and Rickey Wants to Let You Know It
slanchreport.com 8/3/2009 — After getting the Oakland crowd of 35,067 to once more yell “Run, Rickey, run!” one last time, Rickey Henderson took a moment during the team’s ceremony honoring him by retiring his number to “share a little ‘Rickey-ism.’”
“It was you, the ...
Thus Spake Henderson
uniwatchblog.com 8/7/2009 —
In the beginning, there was Okkonen , and it was Good. Because up until then there had been no record of base ball raiment. And so began the Period of Great Enlight’nment, and there was much rejoicing.
And then, after a number of epochs, ...
ModernTube: Rickey finally uses third person in Oakland
sports.yahoo.com 8/3/2009 — Almost one week after wowing the Cooperstown crowd with a memorable but humble induction speech , Rickey Henderson was back in his native Oakland on Saturday to see his number retired by the A's . And while he never referred to himself as ...
Hall monitors should lighten up on Rose —
SFGate: Top Sports Stories 7/28/2009
It must have been nice for Hall of Fame organizers to have a neat, clean weekend, full of celebration and earnest conversation about Rickey Henderson and Jim Rice, who never were associated with baseball's more unsavory issues. Now, regrettably, it's ...
Hot Stove Player of the Week: Luis Castillo —
Bleacher Report - MLB 7/31/2009
The Baseball Hall of Fame induction had a New York flavor to it this year: Former Yankee and Met, Rickey Henderson and former Yankee second baseman, Joe Gordon were inducted, and former Yankee shortstop Tony Kubek won the 2009 Ford C. Frick Award.
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His other ex-team steals Rickey Night —
SFGate: Top Sports Stories 8/2/2009
With Rickey Henderson's jersey No. 24 adorning the wall in left field on Saturday night, his former club played one good inning and did zip otherwise. It was another former Henderson team, the Blue Jays, who came away with a 6-5 victory on Rickey ...
Rickey Henderson—San Diego Padre Legend —
Bleacher Report - MLB 8/4/2009
Rickey Henderson played in San Diego for almost 3 full seasons, and Rickey being Rickey, naturally set records as a Padre, entertaining the baseball world. In his induction speech, Henderson hit upon the exact reason he was a great signing for the ...
