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Baseball in Crisis: Day 46,535

By By Jim Baker
MLB Insider

Wednesday, March 3, 2004

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times&." Why do those twelve words that open Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities continue to resonate so many years after they were written? Perhaps it is because no other words better sum up the human condition. Life is a constant bombardment of shadows and light and we, as baseball fans, see this today especially. Today's news sources are filled with items that go beyond innuendo and suggestion in regard to the ongoing steroid story. They actu ...

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