The long ball is dead. Long live the long ball. You may want to rethink all that stuff you heard about the incredibly shrinking slugger and the reemergence of ''small ball" in the wake of steroid testing in baseball. The home run has not exactly retreated from the game; on the contrary, it appears that Major League Baseball officials, from ... (Full article: 2302 words)

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