In those more simple times, the mere act of reporting those events accurately was the main task at hand. ... It was as if the journalism community had an unspoken pact that certain personal traits were off base in terms of their reporting. ... For instance, how many ways can someone report game five of the World Series or if someone rushes for a 100 yards in a game? So instead of reporting just the events, the media now digs into the personal lives of these "heroes" and makes it public. One of the earlier occurrences, happened in July of 1970, when Jim Bouton, a pitcher for the Y...

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More specifically, the report claimed that Rose had bet on 52 Reds games in 1987 at no less than $10,000 a day (Carter). James Reston Jr., author of the authoritative book on Rose called Collision at Home Plate, said that "between the handwriting and fingerprint evidence, the fact that Rose bet on baseball on at least two occasions is absolutely and incontrovertibly established" (Schneider D2). ... He has been spotted in Las Vegas casinos hanging around the sports book, the place one would go to place legal bets on sporting events (Berkow D7). ... The Cincinnati Enquirer reported in January...

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The 1996 National League most valuable player Ken Caminiti reported that he did in fact use steroids to gain strength and size. Up to 50 percent of all M.L.B. players have been reported by various sources to have used a form of steroids at one time or another. Even though the percentage is not clearly accurate due to reports up to 85% and as low as 10% used steroids. ... Jose says it is up to 85% and he is currently working on a book on the topic of steroids and baseball players. ...

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According to a Sports Illustrated report, "major league players made 467 trips to the DL last season, staying there an average of 59 days -- 20 percent longer than in 1997. ... If 5 percent or fewer of all the major league players test positive under survey testing (in his new book, Yankees pitcher David Wells estimates that 25-40 percent are), players will again be subject to the same system of anonymous testing next year. ...

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