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The 2021 pitch doctoring controversy arose in Major League Baseball (MLB) around pitchers' use of foreign substances, such as the resin-based Spider Tack, to improve their grip on the baseball and the spin rate on their pitches. On June 15, 2021, MLB announced a new policy whereby any player caught using foreign substances on baseballs would ...
On February 4, 1991, Rose's ban from baseball was extended to the Baseball Hall of Fame, when the twelve members of the board of directors of the Hall voted unanimously to bar Rose from the ballot. However, Major League Baseball allowed Rose to be a part of the All-Century Team celebration in 1999 since he was named one of the team's outfielders.
When detected by an umpire during a game, illegal actions such as doctoring the baseball or using a doctored bat result in an immediate ejection. Such ejections are rare in Major League Baseball, with less than 50 instances of "doctored" or "doctoring" appearing in a log of nearly 18,000 ejections since 1889—by comparison, "fighting" appears ...
While steroid scandals have run rampant throughout the MLB over the years, things reached a new level in 2013 when 20 players were accused of human growth hormone (HGH) after obtaining it from the ...
Georgia baseball coach Wes Johnson responded Thursday for the first time on accusations a Bulldogs pitcher doctored a ball in a game at Texas A&M.
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2001 Major League Baseball contraction plan; 2002 Major League Baseball All-Star Game; 2011–12 Los Angeles Dodgers ownership dispute; 2012 National League Wild Card Game; 2015 Chicago White Sox–Baltimore Orioles crowdless game; 2021 pitch doctoring controversy; 2024 Major League Baseball uniform controversy
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