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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.
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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.
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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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