After more than 20 years of professional baseball players cheating the system and injecting themselves with anything that can enhance their ability, Major League Baseball finally realized its mistake and instituted the Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program in 2006.
San Francisco Giants’ All-Star left fielder Melky Cabrera has been suspended 50 games for violating Major League Baseball’s drug prevention program, the league announced Wednesday.
The season for the 14-year-old San Benito Babe Ruth All-Stars ended Thursday one round short of a second-consecutive berth in the Pacific Southwest Regional championship game. Needing to win two games to advance to play Friday, San Benito could muster a victory in only its first game and was eliminated.
Hunter Pence, still in transit, was not in the Giants' lineup Tuesday. Nor was Shane Victorino, similarly dealt that morning by the Philadelphia Phillies, starting for the Dodgers.
Looking for another way to play baseball beyond San Benito Babe Ruth, Robert Fabing decided to gather a group of 14 players spanning the varsity, junior varsity and freshman levels at San Benito and take them to San Jose for the first time this year.