Two-time MVP Murphy: I should have spoken up about juice when I played

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The Soul of Baseball found this 4/1/2007 on www.nydailynews.com [flag]
Dale Murphy remembers sitting in front of a television screen, staring. There were Jose Canseco and the other beefy sluggers on the 1980s Oakland Athletics, slamming home runs and then bashing their ripped forearms in celebration. Murphy, an accomplished slugger, said to himself, "Something strange is going on here." The brawn, the thick biceps, it all seemed so wrong, like something more than ... [link]

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Home Run Derby Part II
Published 4/1/2007 by Joe Posnanski at The Soul of Baseball
... . Just in time for Opening Day. Hey, this is supposed to be a promotional blog, you know. How many home runs do we think Mike Schmidt would hit in this little bandbox of a ballpark they call Citizens Bank Park? I don t know, but I was surprised to see that Veteran s Stadium was, for most of Schmidt s career, a good hitter s park. By the way, Schmidt is pretty talkative these days, isn t he? Now, the guy's a book critic -- I just got an advance copy of Frank Deford's new baseball novel "The Entitled" (excellent so far, 100 pages in) and there on the front, you see: The Entitled is a baseball masterpiece. Mike Schmidt. Odds on who from the 70s and 80s becomes the cranky veteran: Joe Morgan: EVEN Mike Schmidt: 3-1 Dale Murphy : 5-1 Tom Seaver: 10-1 Steve Carlton: 50-1 Pittsburgh Pirates: 54, Ralph Kiner, 1949. Anytime you put a Ralph Kiner into the Hall of Fame, you pretty much open the door f

Too Little, Too Late : Murphy’s Grandstanding
Published 4/1/2007 by GC at Can't Stop The Bleeding
... Saying he was “naive” to have been silent for so long, former Braves superstar Dale Murphy tells the New York Daily News’ Anthony McCarron he was never offered steroids, but “I don’t think it would have taken more than one conversation to get them.”

The breakout of the Warrior Sports News
Published 4/2/2007 by The Truth at Warrior Sports News
... I'm sure messages such as these are now commonplace but they should never grow old when talking to young athletes. They all want to be like their heroes and live the life that those accomplishments bring. Hopefully, with love and wisdom all around them, they won't take the same train to that end.

Last Call for Clomid and Nolvadex
Published 9/12/2007 by Shyster at ShysterBall
... It never fails. Someone gets on their high horse about PEDs, and the next thing you know they're the ones in the cross-hairs. Of course, I'm talking about anti-steroid crusader, Dale Murphy: ...