Rafael Palmeiro
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"Rafael Palmeiro Corrales" is a retired Cuban American Major League Baseball first baseman and left fielder. Palmeiro was an All-American at Mississippi State University before being drafted by the Chicago Cubs in 1985. He played for the Cubs (1986–1988), Texas Rangers (baseball)/Texas Rangers (1989–1993, 1999–2003), and the Baltimore Orioles (1994–1998, 2004–2005). He was named to the Major League Baseball All-Star Game/MLB All-Star Team four times, and won the Gold Glove Award/Gold Glove three times. He is a member of the 500 home run club and the 3,000 hit club and is only the fourth player in history to be a member of both.

Days after recording his 3,000th hit, Palmeiro was suspended for testing positive for an anabolic steroid.

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No one seemed to want to talk about our game, ... Even our manager had to comment on the situation and no one really focused on the game and to me that's sad because it's taking away from baseball and the game.

I think that if I stayed and traveled with the team, there's always going to be a distraction, ... I think being in Toronto was a really big distraction to our team. We need to try to avoid that as much as we can.

They've always been there with me throughout my whole career actually, so I'm very thankful that my wife and kids are here to support me, ... It means a lot to me.

Obviously, I would love to play and come back and finish and hopefully prove to everyone I can still play at a high level, that I can still be productive and do it the right way, which I've always done, ... I am not going to shy away from what happened to me. I am going to face it. Hopefully, I can explain myself one day, and whether people believe me or not, I can't control that.

I have never used steroids, period.

I'll be back. I am not sure how long, but I'll be back.

Everything just kind of crumbled, unexpectedly really. I never expected that anything would happen to me, not at this stage of my career, anyway.

I just wish we had a win. We had a chance to win it in the ninth and I was up at the plate. I thought it would've been a good opportunity for me to at least get a hit to tie the game.

I think it is a good idea.