The Baseball Hall of Fame is starting a drug education program for students and young adults — in the same year Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens and Sammy Sosa will appear on ballot for the first time after careers tainted by steroid accusations.

The Milwaukee Brewers say reigning National League MVP Ryan Braun will not attend the team's fan festival this weekend because it's too "sensitive" a period for the slugger who awaits a decision of his appeal of a 50-game suspension under baseball's drug policy.

CBC Sports baseball contributor Kevin Glew explains why he would pick a former Toronto Blue Jay and two Montreal Expos for induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2012.

Steroid use shouldn't keep baseball's best sluggers and pitchers out of the Hall of Fame, the head of the players' union said Wednesday, adding the Hall ""is for the best baseball players that have ever played."