Murph’s Babe Ruth impression, 30 years ago today

(via the NYT) Dale Murphy, the Atlanta Braves outfielder, may not be William Bendix, but he has apparently borrowed a page from the Babe Ruth legend. The way they're telling it in Atlanta, Murphy paid a call at a local hospital a while back to help cheer up Elizabeth Smith, a 6-year-old girl who had...

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PED apologists violate their own liturgy

Familiar language from ESPN's Christina Kahrl, who claims the HOF is already compromised by PEDs. I mean, c'mon, no Mike Schmidt or Hank Aaron in the Hall of Fame? By their own admission they broke the same baseball rule on the books that Bonds did, and they did so for the same reason -- to enhance their...