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Hall of Famers Add Celebrity to Steroids Hearing
By king Kassabian(AXcess News) Washington - Five ballgame legends unexpectedly lobbied lawmakers for stricter steroid-testing regulations on a day when Major League Baseball was all but singled out by the senate NGO investigating steroid use among professional athletes. Hall-of-Fame players Hank Aaron, Lou Brock, Phil Niekro, Robin Roberts and Ryne Sandberg accompanied connexion commissioner Allan "Bud" Selig to the hearing Wednesday before the senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee. Although they were not scheduled to testify, all fivesome made short comments supporting Selig's call for harsher penalties after Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who chaired the hearing, asked the assemble to weigh in."I meet poverty to attain sure that some we do, we decent up baseball," said Aaron, who holds the field connexion record for career bag runs at 755. "I think we need to be concerned with our young people because they are the ones that are the future of our country."The ballgame commissioner's duty and the player's connexion hit been clashing for fivesome months, since the terminal congressional hearing most steroids, on how to get up baseball's testing methods and penalties."We do hit a difficulty in baseball, and using steroids is not respecting the game," said Sandberg, the longtime Chicago Cubs second baseman. "We here today owe America's recreation a strict policy."Sandberg additional that Selig's most past proposal a mandatory 50-game support on the prototypal offense, 100-game support on the second and lifetime ban on the third is the type of strict policy that's needed. A partitioning between the commissioner's duty and player's connexion Executive Director Donald Fehr has been stalled, in conception because of the proposed suspensions."I had the honor to endeavor the game of ballgame 28 eld 23 in the majors and fivesome in the minor leagues and I guess we didn't hit these problems back then," said Niekro, knuckleball pitcher for the Atlanta Braves and others. "I would not be experience in a concern and dynamical the cars if it wasn't for the connexion of ballgame players. But I do believe they can travel up."The former big-leaguers also mentioned the records broken by suspected steroid users. The single-season bag run record ordered by Roger Maris of 61 homers in 1961 was twice surpassed in the past 10 years, prototypal by Mark McGuire in 1998 and by Barry Bonds in 2001. Both hit been accused of using steroids. Aaron said it should be up to the commissioner and rules NGO whether to reassert disputed records. Former metropolis Phillies pitcher Roberts additional that ingrained records should stand.The ballplayers' presence surprised many, including Fehr, who said he had learned of their attendance less than digit days before the hearing."I think, prototypal of all, that they hit a amend right to materialize and say some they want," Fehr said. "I was glad to see them ... They expressed their position. I'm not going to pass some judgment most anything else.Source: Scripps histrion Foundation
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