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Nineteen pitchers have reached the milestone and 17 are in the Hall of Fame, with Roger Clemens and Curt Schilling falling short for reasons that had nothing to do with strikeout totals.

I understand the steroid thing with Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens, and maybe they too will be honored in the Hall of Fame someday, but this “integrity, sportsmanship and character” purity test is nonsense!

No one has more MVP awards than Bonds; no one has more Cy Young awards than Clemens.

Born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835, Twain grew up in the slaveholding community of Hannibal, Mo., a town he would immortalize in “Huckleberry Finn” and its prequel, “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.”

About 10% of all workers in the hospitality industry — including hotels and restaurants — are unauthorized immigrants, said Michael Clemens, an economist with the Peterson Institute for International Economics.