Baseball must pass the test.(My Turn)

Dear Don Fehr,

Get a clue. Do something about steroids. Believe me--you don't want the government running your business. Trust me on this.

Your friend, J.C.

I made my athletic mark playing football, but for the sheer thrill of sport, I still have to give it up to baseball. There is something special about the home run. I vividly remember Carlton Fisk's shot in Game 6 of the 1975 Series and Kirk Gibson limping up to hit one out against Dennis Eckersley in Game 1 of the 1988 World Series.

We watched in amazement during that magical I summer of 1998, when Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa battled back and forth before they both shattered Roger Maris' single-season home run record. When Maris broke Babe Ruth's record, the league branded him a disappointment by placing an asterisk next to his name. But Big Mac and Sammy were heroes; we credited them with reviving the game. It took 37 years to break Maris' mark, and we naively believed McGwire's record could stand well into a 10-year-old's adulthood.

But a guy named Barry Bonds shattered that record only three years later, with 73 trips around the diamond.

Amazing.