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Palmeiro: Canseco claims are ‘ludicrous’

Rafael Palmeiro yesterday denied ever taking steroids, calling those claims in Jose Canseco's pending book "ludicrous," and Orioles owner Peter Angelos rushed to Palmeiro's defense. In a combined statement released...
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Canseco book: Players injected each other

Jose Canseco threatened to name names. He threatened to smear Major League Baseball's image with allegations of widespread steroid abuse. When pressed for details, he said they'd all be in...
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Chance meeting seeded ground for huge deal

The trade talks were stalled. The Cubs had hit a wall in their efforts to unload Sammy Sosa. And the Orioles' off-season was still a fruitless disappointment. It was Jan....
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Sosa is `ready to win crowd’

Vowing to win over Baltimore's fans, Sammy Sosa arrived Tuesday night, ready to be introduced Wednesday as the newest Oriole. "It's a great place for me to come here and...
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League envoy seeks to ease Orioles’ pain

Major League Baseball sent a high-ranking emissary to Baltimore yesterday to seek the Orioles' blessing for a competing franchise in Washington, but team owner Peter G. Angelos remained resolutely opposed....
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Orioles’ owner resigned to Expos’ move to D.C.

Orioles owner Peter Angelos has become increasingly resigned to seeing the Montreal Expos play in Washington next year, based on the information he has gathered from ownership circles, Orioles officials...
Eddie Murray delivers his speech to an audience of 18,000 during the induction ceremony in Cooperstown, N.Y. 'Steady Eddie,' the career RBI leader among switch-hitters, was a three-time Gold Glove winner and eight-time All-Star.

Sharing greatest stage

COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. - Eddie Murray's first major league mentor had a seat close to the stage at yesterday's Hall of Fame induction ceremonies. So did the guy who lost his...
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Trying week concludes for Kiley Bechler

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - One week from the day her husband collapsed on an Orioles practice field, Kiley Bechler flew home to Oregon yesterday after taking a few moments to...
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To O's, ephedrine use still deemed a tossup

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - With paramedics working desperately inside the training room Sunday to try to save Steve Bechler's life, Orioles pitcher Matt Riley recognized a bottle of Xenadrine RFA-1...
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Switch-hitting experiment paid off

The Orioles knew they had something special at Double-A Asheville in 1975, even if Eddie Murray wasn't showing it at the plate. He was 19 then, and the accolades were...