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Penalties need to be harsher

By Joe Morgan
Special to ESPN Insider

Wednesday, April 13, 2005

• Chat with Joe Morgan, 11 a.m. ET Friday. Baseball has always been able to overcome any controversies or off-field problems that have plagued the game over the years. Baseball has always been able to withstand anything that has happened – including the Black Sox scandal of 1919, the racial bias that kept African-Americans out of the majors until 1947, the cocaine controversy of the 1980s and the canceling of the 1994 World Series because of the strike. Despite all of this, basebal ...

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