Corked Bats

[Cindy C.]

Hi, all,

I'm not much of a baseball fan, but I did hear about Sammy Sosa's 
woes.  Apparently, he used a corked bat during a game, which is a no-
no.  They inspected his 70+ other bats (why does a pro player need 
that many bats, anyway?), and only this one bat was corked.  

He claims that he uses the corked bat for practice, and he used it in 
the game by accident.

Could this possibly be true?  I mean, if you have one bat that will 
get you suspended, wouldn't your write all over it, "Sammy, whatever 
you do, don't use this bat by accident!"  And wouldn't practicing 
with a corked bat screw up your timing anyway?

What can I say?  I love a good scandal!  ;-)

Cindy