{"604574":{"#nid":"604574","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Why Are Sportswriters Whitewashing Baseball\u2019s Dark Secrets","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/smith_1\u0022\u003EJohnny Smith\u003C\/a\u003E, assistant professor in the School of History and Sociology (HSOC) at Georgia Institute of Technology, wrote the \u003Cem\u003EDaily Beast\u003C\/em\u003E, March 29, article, \u0026ldquo;Why Are Sportswriters Whitewashing Baseball\u0026rsquo;s Dark Secrets?\u0026rdquo; The School of History and Sociology is part of the Georgia Tech Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe results are in.\u0026nbsp;Cooperstown has a new class.\u0026nbsp;On Jan. 24, 2018, the Baseball Writers\u0026rsquo; Association of America voted, electing Chipper Jones, Vladimir Guerrero, Jim Thome, and Trevor Hoffman to the Hall of Fame.\u0026nbsp; Once again, Roger Clemens, Barry Bonds, and Manny Ramirez, three superstars of the past whom the writers have branded \u0026ldquo;cheaters,\u0026rdquo; finished out of the running, and poor Sammy Sosa was so far down the list that he now will have to buy a ticket on StubHub to get into Wrigley Field.\u0026nbsp;Baseball\u0026rsquo;s Fourth Estate, the sanctified moral arbiters of the national pastime, have spoken with righteous clarity.\u0026nbsp;For more than a decade, since former Sen. George J. Mitchell\u0026rsquo;s investigation implicated 89 Major League players for using performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs), baseball writers have tried to reclaim the mythical purity of the game. Written by Johnny Smith, Julius C. \u0026ldquo;Bud\u0026rdquo; Shaw Professor of Sports, Society, and Technology and an Assistant Professor of History at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor the full article, visit the \u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/why-are-sportswriters-whitewashing-baseballs-dark-secrets\u0022\u003EDaily Beast\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E website.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34554","created_gmt":"2018-04-02 15:16:09","changed_gmt":"2018-04-02 15:16:09","author":"ralu3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"3D IC Design","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/why-are-sportswriters-whitewashing-baseballs-dark-secrets","dateline":{"date":"2018-03-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2018-03-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"602698":{"id":"602698","type":"image","title":"Johnny Smith ","body":null,"created":"1519232152","gmt_created":"2018-02-21 16:55:52","changed":"1519232152","gmt_changed":"2018-02-21 16:55:52","alt":"","file":{"fid":"229721","name":"JohnSmithWeb.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/JohnSmithWeb.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/JohnSmithWeb.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":97065,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/JohnSmithWeb.jpg?itok=Qh5ePnxI"}}},"media_ids":["602698"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4124","name":"baseball"},{"id":"177608","name":"major league"},{"id":"120121","name":"players"},{"id":"198","name":"game"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}