Baseball Hopes to Resolve Nationals' Lease (AP)
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Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig, left, testifies on professional sports drug testing policies before the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee on Capitol Hill in this March 10, 2004 photo. At right is Donald Fehr, executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association. Major League Baseball players and owners agreed to toughen penalties for steroid use to a 50-game suspension for a first failed test and a lifetime ban for a third, The Associated Press learned. Baseball's current steroid penalties are a 10-day suspension for a first offense, 30 days for a second offense, and 60 days for a third. The earliest a player could be banned for life is a fifth offense.(AP Photo/Dennis Cook)
AP - Major League Baseball hopes it can resolve differences with Washington officials over a stadium lease by next week, clearing the way for a sale of the Nationals. |
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