Under section 10.22(a) of the Official Baseball Rules, he would win the batting title if an extra hitless at-bat is added to his average and it remained higher than that of any other qualifying player.

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All three served suspensions for violations of baseball's performance enhancing drug rules last year.

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More than any other team, Spain embodies one of the enduring quirks of the tournament, which is now in its third edition: Loose rules that allow fringe countries to compensate for a lack of baseball talent by signing just about anyone who could remotely identify with them.

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Neither of them, in my opinion, were proven beyond a shadow of a doubt to have broken baseball's laws and rules.

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He was stripped of those medals though for violating the Olympic rules on amateurism when it was revealed he played two years of semi-pro baseball.

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Baseball rules state a player needs to average 3.1 plate appearances for each of his team's games to become a batting, slugging or on-base percentage champion.

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