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A look at some of the darkest days in the history of baseball:From gambling to drugs to labour disputes, baseball dotted with dark days (Canadian Press via Yahoo! News)

UNDATED -- For nearly 90 years, the Black Sox scandal has been baseball's darkest hour.Baseball's darkest days: the 1919 Black Sox scandal (7 News Boston)

The history of baseball from now on will be divided into two distinct eras, before the Mitchell report and after.Mitchell's report rips mask off baseball*s steroid era (USATODAY.com via Yahoo! News)

NEW YORK -- Nobody does scandal like baseball. Baseball's got it all: sex scandals, drug scandals, gambling scandals, cheating scandals. Many brawls. Guys who do not pay their taxes. No wonder Pete Rose, for a singles hitter, is so famous. Yes, he's the Hit King, but the Scandal King, too.Could golf be the next sport to face a series of drug scandals? (Sports Illustrated)

NEW YORK: The use of steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs in Major League Baseball has been called one of the biggest scandals in the history of the game. But the so-called steroid era is one of several scandals in baseball history.Baseball scandals: past and present (Gulf Times)

With the release of former Sen. George Mitchell's report on performance enhancing drugs in baseball, there's no question the past 10 years will go down in history as the "Steroids Era." It is a shameful taint on America's game that rivals the infamous "Black Sox" gambling scandal of 1919.Our view: Baseball can no longer say it ain't so (Eagle-Tribune Online)