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The Dugout: Blauch Buster

By B. Thompson StroudSep 29th 2009 – 11:00PM

As reported earlier today, former All-Star, World Series champion, and all-around somewhat competent baseball player Chuck Knoblauch has been charged with hitting his common-law wife in the face and choking her like she was a female police officer. Since his premature retirement at the age of 34, Knoblauch has steadily and...

Chuck Knoblauch Charged With Assault

By Matt SnyderSep 29th 2009 – 5:30PM

Former All-Star and World Series champion Chuck Knoblauch has seen better days. Since retiring, Knoblauch was named on the notorious Mitchell Report as a player who partook in the use of illegal performance-enhancing drugs, and he has since admitted as much. Now, he's been charged with assaulting his common-law wife....

Knoblauch Never Saw Benefits from HGH

By Matt WatsonFeb 15th 2008 – 6:50PM

Despite admitting to taking HGH from 2000 while with the Yankees through the end of his career in 2002 with the Royals, Chuck Knoblauch doesn't think he actually received any physical benefits. So why did he continue to take it? Because he was desperate, at first to correct his throwing problems and then to extend his...

Knoblauch's Throwing Problem Led to HGH

By Matt WatsonFeb 15th 2008 – 5:20PM

Remember when Chuck Knoblauch went from being a decent second baseman to endangering the health of fans sitting behind first base almost overnight? It turns out that it was that problem that led him to first try HGH. In his deposition (PDF) given to Congressional investigators earlier this month, Knoblauch describes going...

Pettitte May Not Be on the Hill Wednesday

By PostmanRFeb 11th 2008 – 8:14PM

Wednesday is supposed to be the fun day for the whole Brian McNamee-Roger Clemens did-he-or-did-he-not debacle. After all, they'll be witnesses during a public hearing put on the the House Oversight Committee. They'll be in the same room; I can only hope a brawl breaks out. Also, they're set to be joined by a few other...

chuck knoblauch News From the Web

  • 05/21/12 Chuck Knoblauch Drunk On The G Train—Why Not? Source: Gothamist - New York NY Erin, a librarian living in Brooklyn, has an epic account of a run-in with a drunk fat guy wearing chef's pants on the G train who was trying to wow her and her friend.
  • 05/21/12 Judge: McNamee can name Pettitte, Knoblauch Source: ESPN The judge in the Roger Clemens perjury trial has ruled that key prosecution witness Brian McNamee can identify two players who confirmed under oath the strength trainer's claim that he injected them with human growth hormone.
  • 05/18/12 Knoblauch needle also in beer can says McNamee Source: New York Daily News - New York NY As Roger Clemens' perjury trial continued Friday morning, his attorney, Rusty Hardin may have opened the door to an area Hardin has desperately tried to keep closed — that Brian McNamee provided steroids and human growth hormone to other players.
  • 05/11/12 B&C Morning Show: It's Back To Baseball, For Now Source: 1010 Wins With a four-hour show ahead of them, Boomer & Craig decided to open up this Friday edition of the Morning Extravaganza talking about 'America's Favorite Pastime' — specifically, the Yankees.

Background on chuck knoblauch

Edward Charles "Chuck" Knoblauch (; born July 7, 1968) is a retired Major League Baseball player. He played all or part of twelve seasons in the majors, from until , for the Minnesota Twins (1991–97), New York Yankees (1998–2001) and Kansas City Royals (2002).

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