CHEATERS IN BASEBALL?
To quote the great Buck O'Neil: "As long as baseball is around, guys will be looking to get ahead." Barry Bonds isn't the first MLB player accused of cheating and won't be the last. Here are some of players through history who found an illegal competitive edge:
1. Barry Bonds - accused of steroid use and HGH
2. Babe Ruth - drank alcohol before games
3. 1951 New York Giants - sign-stealing system in place at the Polo Grounds
4. Gaylord Perry - loaded the baseball with Vaseline
5. Albert Belle - used corked bates
6. Sammy Sosa - used corked bats
7. John McGraw - used to grab baserunners belts, trip feet, and spike players as they rounded third
8. Joe Niekro - used an emory board and sandpaper on his finger to throw nasty sliders and knuckleballs
9. Whitey Ford - doctored balls, sliced cuts into balls, and threw a "gunk" ball made of mud, baby oil, turpentine, and resin
10. The Bossard Family (groundskeepers, Cleveland Indians, Chicago White Sox, 1920s-present) - kept fields wet for sinker-ball pitchers and muddy bases for speedy base-stealers
11. Norm Cash - used a corked bat for an entire season (BA - .361, HRs - 41, RBIs - 132)
12. Graig Nettles - used the "superball" bat
13. Amos Otis - used a corked / "superball" bat
14. George Brett - the infamous "too much pine tar on his bat" incident
15. Preacher Roe - his book title says all "he Outlawed Spitball Was My Money Pitch."
16. Rick Honeycutt - used a tack to cut slices in the ball while pitching - actually scratched his face with the tack once almost poking his eye out
17. Don Sutton - accused of scuffing with hidden sandpaper - Once, he left a note inside his glove for the men in black. It said, "You're getting warm, but it's not here."
18. Kevin Gross - used sandpaper when pitching
19. Billy Hatcher - corked bat
20. Wilton Guerrero - corked bat
21. Brian Moehler - sandpaper thumb
22. Lew Burdette - accused of throwing a "spitball"
23. Nels Potter - accused of throwing a "spitball"
24. Maury Wills - a manager who, on April 25, 1981, told the Kingdome groundskeepers to enlarge the batter's box by a foot
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