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Major League Baseball swung back yesterday as a congressional panel subpoenaed some of the sport's biggest stars - including scandal-scarred Yankee slugger Jason Giambi - to answer questions about steroids. Baseball executives vowed to go to court to stop the House Government Reform Committee from making Giambi, and home run kings Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire, among others, testify next week on Capitol Hill.

Ex-Yankee Jose Canseco, who roiled baseball with his tell-all book about alleged steroid use, also was called to testify, along with pitcher Curt Schilling and sluggers Rafael Palmeiro and Frank Thomas. Continue